News
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Two men jailed over £600,000 Transatlantic drug smuggling plot
Two drug traffickers who tried to smuggle cannabis with a street value of almost £600,000 into Scotland on a flight from Canada have been jailed for a total of five years and six months.
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Prison officer sentenced for indecent communication and possessing child abuse images
A prison officer who believed he was sending sexual messages to a child on a social media messaging app has been sentenced.
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Paisley man made child abuse images using Artificial Intelligence app
A telecoms worker from Paisley has been sentenced for creating and storing AI-generated images of child sex abuse.
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Woman jailed for embezzlement ordered to pay back almost £670,000 under Proceeds of Crime laws
A woman who embezzled £1.5million from a family scrap metal business in Aberdeen has been ordered to repay almost £670,000 under Proceeds of Crime laws.
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Drugs traffickers jailed for nine years over cocaine and cannabis supply network
Two men who set up a drugs trafficking network worth hundreds of thousands of pounds have been imprisoned for a total of nine years.
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Man who raped vulnerable girl jailed after extradition to Scotland
A man who was extradited from Germany to stand trial after raping a vulnerable teenage girl has been jailed for eight years.
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Employee who embezzled £1million from local authority ordered to pay back funds under Proceeds of Crime laws
A former local authority employee who embezzled more than £1million from Aberdeen City Council over a 17-year period has been ordered to repay more than £165,000 under Proceeds of Crime laws.
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Lord Advocate welcomes new protocol for work-related deaths
The Lord Advocate has welcomed a new agreement which will improve how agencies work together in the investigation of work-related deaths in Scotland.
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Doctor who installed hidden cameras sentenced for voyeurism offences
A doctor convicted of voyeurism offences after secretly recording more than two dozen people over the course of three years has been jailed for 18 months.
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New process for children accused of sexual offences
The Lord Advocate has set out new processes for future decisions to use diversion from prosecution or referral to the Children’s Reporter in rape cases where the accused is a child.