Officers watched him carry weighted carrier bags during 21 visits to premises connected to a prominent Glasgow crime group
A career criminal who acted as a “wages” paymaster to elite gangland figures and their families has been jailed for four years and eight months.
He is a member of an organisation targeted by Police Scotland’s Operation Escalade, a long-running intelligence operation into Scotland’s highest-ranking organised crime groups. Officers watched him carry weighted carrier bags during 21 visits to premises connected to the group as part of a money-laundering scheme.McTaggart, a plasterer, was arrested in Glasgow in October 2019 and found to be in possession of a carrier bag containing a total of £14,575 in notes.
“This successful prosecution sends out a strong message about our determination to disrupt serious organised crime.
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