The charge spanned between March and June 2020, when Smith had access to vehicles belonging to a haulage company he worked for.<\/p>\n
The court was told of various chats Smith had with associates on EncroChat, including messages about him selling 15kg of cocaine and “wishing” that he had another 50kg to offload.<\/p>\n
In one conversation, Smith agreed to buy \u00a3385,000 of the drug, although it was unclear if the deal went through.<\/p>\n
Prosecutor Bill McVicar added that Smith’s profit margins were about \u00a33,500 per kg at one stage.<\/p>\n
There were further discussion about cash and substances used to bulk out drugs for profit. Figures mentioned included \u00a330,000 to be paid to Smith.<\/p>\n
Smith’s properties in Lesmahagow in South Lanarkshire and the north-east of Glasgow were later raided.<\/p>\n
Officers only found an inoperable encrypted phone and documents related to his finances but evidence implicating Smith came from messages between him and others involved in cocaine dealing.<\/p>\n
McVicar said: “The messages indicated that between March 2020 and June 2020, Smith was a wholesaler of cocaine who acquired substantial quantities in bulk and sold on in kilogram quantities with a profit of around \u00a33,500 per kilogram.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The charge spanned between March and June 2020, when Smith had access to vehicles belonging to a haulage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-678388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115849986363345494","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}