How multi-million drug deals really get done: Unseen texts reveal how 'Tony Soprano' kingpin sealed 'life-changing' £100m cocaine deal with Ecuadorians

Once dubbed Scotland's Tony Soprano, Jamie Stevenson made a multi million-pound fortune from drug trafficking and came to dominate Glasgow 's underworld.

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