A RINGLEADER of an international drug trafficking gang responsible for smuggling cocaine worth £40 million from Spain to Scotland has to pay back £21,000 – just a fraction of his £200,000 crime profits.
Keith Blenkinsop of Annan, Dumfries-shire, was jailed for 12 years in 2011 for his role in the smuggling gang after a judge decided he was "one of the principals in a major cocaine distribution operation".
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