Albanian dealer paid £13k 'to enter country and grow cannabis'

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An Albanian drug dealer who was set-up in a £250,000 cannabis farm across two remote Scottish cottages has been jailed for two years.Renato Kaloti - who has already been banned from Switzerland for heroin trafficking - will be deported back to Albania after arriving in the United Kingdom illegally.

Sheriff Alistair Carmichael told the 28-year-old: "As far as I can tell, you have offered nothing positive for Scotland."Dundee Sheriff Court was told that Kaloti gave 13,000 Euro to an Albanian drug gang for them to smuggle him into the UK to oversee a large-scale cannabis cultivation.

The court heard that he borrowed the money from his mother and expected to be able to pay it back out of his share of the profits from the 309-plant cannabis farm in Angus.Fiscal depute Joanne Ritchie told the court the illicit cultivation was discovered by a SEPA official who was investigating irregularities in power usage at the adjacent cottages.

She said: "He observed a meter bypass and there was a strong smell of cannabis. He contacted police. The accused presented himself at a side door."He presented his arms crossed over in front of him and said 'arrest me, I'm done.' He invited officers into cottage one where there was a large-scale cannabis cultivation."She told the court that a full search was carried out of both cottages at Neuk Farm by Lundie and plants with a potential value of £231,750 were discovered.