Two Scots who used postal system and dark web to distribute drugs across the world are caged
Connor Holmes and Scott Roddie, both from Aberdeen, have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison following the first conviction of its kind in Scotland.
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Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice Two Scots who used the postal system and dark web to distribute class A drugs with a street value of £1.3 million across the world have been caged.
Aberdeen dealers jailed over £1.3m drugs operation Two men from Aberdeen - who used the postal system and dark web to distribute class A drugs across the world -have been sentenced to a total of eight-and-a-half years in prison.
Police say that the convictions and sentencing of Connor Holmes, 24, and Scott Roddie, 29, are the first of their kind in Scotland.
In December 2018, two parcels from the Netherlands, which were addressed to Holmes, were intercepted by the Border Force and found to containing 8.2 kg of MDMA.
Officers from the Organised Crime Partnership (Scotland) searched his address and recovered approximately 73,366 MDMA tablets worth at least £733,660 and £8,500 in cash.
Man caught at airport with £860,000 in cash jailed A MAN who admitted money laundering offences after he was caught with more than £860,000 at Glasgow Airport has been jailed for 12 months. Lukas Pokorny, 42, was arrested by Border Force officers at the Paisley terminal as he was about to board a flight bound for Dubai on November 8 last year. When officials searched three suitcases in his possession, they found a large quantity of cash in each, totalling more than £860,000. Pokorny, who is from the Czech Republic, was unable to provide keys to unlock the luggage and could not say who the cases belonged to or what they contained.
By Press Association 2021
Lukas Pokorny
A man who admitted money laundering offences after he was caught with more than £860,000 at an airport has been jailed for a year.
Lukas Pokorny, 42, was arrested by Border Force officers at Glasgow Airport as he was about to board a flight bound for Dubai on November 8 2020.
When officials searched three suitcases in his possession they found a large quantity of cash in each, totalling more than £860,000.
Pokorny, who is from the Czech Republic, was unable to provide keys to unlock the luggage, say who they belonged to or what they contained.
The money was found in three suitcases (Crown Office/PA)
Man caught with £800k stuffed in suitcases at Glasgow Airport while boarding Dubai flight
Pokorny was stopped by officers as part of an intelligence led investigation into the exportation of cash from the UK to Dubai.
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Three suitcases full of cash were seized (Image: Crown Office)
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