A dealer nicknamed “glasgowceltic” forged links with a fellow criminal known as “Rangers” during a multi-million pound drug trafficking operation.
Paul Easdon boasted how the cartel was raking in £4m-a-month from selling cocaine alone.The 36 year-old - who lived a flash lifestyle from his ill-gotten gains - was in the same criminal network as ex-Mr Scotland bodybuilder John Barry McDuff.
Easdon has now joined McDuff behind bars after the law authorities smashed the EncroChat phone network used by scores of crime gangs.
Easdon will be sentenced at a later date after he admitted his guilt at the High Court in Glasgow.The hearing was told how the dad was in contact with a number of associates on EncroChat including an individual with the handle “mrr-Rangers”.
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