A drug courier who was caught with millions of pounds worth of cocaine has agreed to hand over £21,000 to settle a proceeds of crime action.
David Murdoch, 57, was jailed for ten years earlier this year after he and an accomplice were caught ferrying the haul of Class A drugs into Scotland.
Following his conviction, the Crown raised an action to seize crime profits from lorry driver Murdoch, formerly of Dunlop Street, Linwood, in Renfrewshire.
During a brief hearing at the High Court in Edinburgh judge Lord Weir was told that a settlement has now been reached in the case.
Under its terms it was agreed that Murdoch's benefit from general criminal conduct was £21,248 and a confiscation order should be made for the same amount.
Murdoch and Graham McCulloch, 39, from Airdrie, in North Lanarkshire, were stopped by police in May last year near Ecclefechan, Dumfries and Galloway, following a cross border investigation.
Cocaine with a street value of almost pounds six million was recovered in the operation which snared the pair.
Murdoch was driving a Mercedes van with a concealed compartment and McCulloch was at the wheel of a BMW car when officers swooped on the A74.
The pair admitted being concerned in the supply of cocaine between October 2019 and May last year at streets in London and Kent and at Ecclefechan.
McCulloch was also jailed for 10 years for his role in the drug supply operation and earlier agreed to hand over pounds 246,000.
