A convicted Perthshire cocaine dealer is to have almost £15,000 of his assets seized by the Crown.
Scone stonemason Graeme Malcolm, 45, had a luxury home in Spain, a stake in a racehorse and jetted all over Europe following Rangers FC.
Highly regarded in his legal trade, he was involved in the restoration of a damaged arch at Scone Palace after it was struck by a van in September 2010.
However, behind his respectable facade he was helping to transport cocaine via a courier from Liverpool to Scotland.
Malcolm had been in mobile telephone contact with the drug supplier and courier and had travelled to Liverpool to oversee the transaction before returning to Scotland.
Police stopped the vehicle containing the cocaine, which was hidden in a rucksack, on April 22 2012.
Officers swooped on Malcolm and his accomplices Perth man Roderick Moncrieff and Liverpudlian Michael Noon as they drove north with a stash of the class A drug.
The cocaine seized during the operation was said to have had a purchase price of £200,000.
Malcolm was convicted of being concerned in the supply of cocaine, with locations listed on the charge including Perth and Liverpool, and on June 21 last year, at the High Court in Livingstone, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Moncrieff admitted the charge and was jailed for four years and two months for his role as courier.
Noon was sentenced to five years and seven months.
A confiscation order for £14,699 was made against Malcolm in Edinburgh under the provisions of Proceeds of Crime legislation, which is designed to claw back the ill-gotten gains of criminals for the benefit of Scottish communities.
The Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency had long suspected Malcolm’s criminal dealings as his lifestyle was at odds with his supposed earnings as a stonemason.
Lindsey Miller, procurator fiscal for organised crime and counter terrorism, said: “Scotland is fast becoming a harder and harder place for drug dealers to do business.
“Not only do dealers face conviction, imprisonment, and the destruction of any drugs that are seized, but they also face considerable financial scrutiny and the loss of their illegal earnings.”