From the Scottish Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service yesterday:

Victor Kihu, 24, recruited men from deprived areas in England to sell and supply Class A drugs from several properties in a cross-border county lines illicit practice known as cuckooing. 

Prosecutors from the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) gathered evidence which showed Kihu exercised control over multiple addresses to oversee the drug-trafficking scheme. 

He directed others to purchase and sell cocaine and heroin while using the homes of susceptible individuals as a base for his criminal conduct. 

He was a member of an organised crime group known as Harlem which operated between Aberdeen, Glasgow and Inverness.  

and:

“Victor Kihu deliberately targeted people who, under threats and intimidation, would carry out his coercive demands to let others use their homes for criminal conduct. 

“But he is now in prison having been brought to account for his crimes. 

“The public can be assured we take this type of offending extremely seriously. 

“We are wholly committed to working with partners to disrupt and deter this type of criminal activity in order to keep our communities safe.” 

Kihu carried out his crimes at eight addresses in Aberdeen between July 2025 and January this year. 

A police investigation revealed that males from England were being housed in each of the properties to sell and buy drugs at Kihu’s direction and on behalf of the Harlem Organised Crime Group. 

He would visit some of the properties and intimidate residents into letting individuals from England stay. 

Source: https://www.copfs.gov.uk/about-copfs/news/man-jailed-for-more-than-six-years-over-county-lines-drug-operation/

The Daily Record and BBC UK covered this but as far as I can see, neither have the BBC Scotland website (above) nor BBC Reporting Scotland