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Jamie Stevenson jailed for £100m plot to smuggle cocaine in banana boxes

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Jamie Iceman' Stevenson was a leading figure at the top level of organised crime in Scotland .

He was once described as Scotland ’s answer to Tony Soprano , the mafia boss portrayed in TV series The Sopranos .

The 59-year-old planned to flood Scotland with millions of Etizolam tablets, also known as street valium.

A tonne of the drug was seized in a raid by Border Force teams at Dover in September 2020 .

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