The surviving kingpin of Scotland's 'most prolific and sophisticated' gang has been jailed for almost 10 years for his dealings in drugs, guns, serious violence and dirty money.
A Lanarkshire kingpin of Scotland's "most prolific and sophisticated" gang has been jailed for almost 10 years after being captured in Brazil.
He said: "The extent of your criminality was such that, had a higher headline sentence been open to me, I would have concluded that the appropriate headline sentence would in fact have been in excess of 15 years." Becoming one of the UK's most wanted men, he was initially caught, using a false passport, in Italy in 2020. Police there mistakenly let him go and he escaped to South America.
Mr McKenzie said: "He spoke fluent Spanish, which assisted the crime group in dealing with associates. He often based himself in Spain for this purpose." White later directed an associate to set up another fake business in Glasgow to help continue trafficking narcotics from abroad.The gangster targeted Robert Allan over an unpaid £90,000 cocaine debt in 2013.White helped track him down before other gang members held him captive and tortured him for days.
White was further heavily involved in the widespread selling of encrypted devices for criminals to secretly communicate with each other.The court heard White advertised MPC "products" at boxing events.The court was told how the Gillespies reportedly had disappeared in 2019.
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