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Two men have been jailed for their involvement in a sophisticated ecstasy supply operation from an Aberdeen flat.
Customers placed orders via a website and paid in cryptocurrency.
Scott Roddie, 29, was jailed for six years and three months, and Connor Holmes, 24, was jailed for two years and three months.
Police said the convictions for using the postal system and dark web to distribute class A drugs were the first of their kind in Scotland.
The operation unravelled after Border Force officers intercepted two packages containing 8kg (18lbs) of the drug, worth more than £680,000.
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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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.
Crook busted at Scots airport with suitcases stuffed full of cash
Lukas Pokorny was arrested at Glasgow Airport as he made his way to Dubai with over £860,000 in cash in his luggage.
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Lukas Pokorny was arrested at Glasgow Airport (Andrew Milligan/PA)
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Police have welcomed the conviction of a man who admitted money laundering offences after he was caught with more than £860,000 at an airport.
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.