A drug trafficker who made more than £45,000 as part of a serious crime gang today agreed to hand over £4,290 to settle a criminal profits action.
Jed Duncan, 25, was jailed for 40 months earlier this year after admitting being concerned in the supply of the Class A drug cocaine in November last year.
A police investigation dubbed Operation Taco was targeting an organised crime group based in the Aberdeen area when Duncan and a co-accused Robert Burns, 28, raised suspicions.
Burns was later jailed for four years and eight months.
After Duncan plead guilty to the drugs offences the Crown brought a proceeds of crime action against him.
During a brief hearing at the High Court in Edinburgh a judge was told that a settlement has been reached in the case.
Under the terms of the agreement, Duncan was estimated to have benefited from criminal conduct by £45,780 and £4,290 was available for a confiscation order. That was the amount of cash found hidden at Duncan’s Aberdeen property.
The money could not be officially seized before now, as it was evidence in a criminal case, but now that Duncan has been convicted Lord Armstrong made a confiscation order in that sum.
He was later arrested at his flat in the city’s Bedford Avenue and a search at the property recovered the £4,290 in cash wrapped in a hair bobble.
The court earlier heard that Duncan was not the focus of the police operation, but accepted that he had moved drugs at the request of others.