According to an Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, for the value of criminal assets recovered in Scotland in the financial years 2022-23 and 2023-24, published today :
An example of the criminals whose profits were confiscated is:
Organised crime gang who supplied cocaine on a ‘wholesale level’ jailed. Four members of an organised crime gang responsible for flooding Edinburgh and the Lothians with cocaine have been jailed. Dale Cleeton was found to be the ‘driving force’ behind the group’s ‘wholesale level’ activities while imprisoned at HMP Edinburgh.
The 31-year-old’s illicit activities were uncovered after two mobile phones and sim cards were found in his cell on October 22, 2021, and April 25, 2022. They contained messages with 30-year-old Calvin Begbie, who was described as Cleeton’s ‘right hand man’.
Begbie? Yes, Begbie. You couldn’t make it up.
Talking-up Scotland 
What or who is Begbie, for those of us new to Scotland, well, 35 years of residence 😉
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Watch the film ‘Trainspotting’ or read the novel.
Alasdair Macdonald
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John you may be interested in this program,ok I know its the BBC Scottish channel 9.
Next Sunday on Highland cops program they are to be doing a raid in property in Inverness where Liverpool drug gangs are I doubt if it will be reported on by GMS or RS have to wait and see.
County Lines
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I demand 100% attention from readers!
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2024/10/20/scotlands-drug-death-toll-explicitly-linked-to-violent-english-gangs-in-documentary-made-for-bbc-scotland-but-never-covered-by-reporting-scotland/
John
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