Five men were jailed at the High Court in Glasgow after a Glasgow money laundering cash operation jailed case tied to almost £20m in dirty cash. The court sentenced Anthony Carroll Sr, Anthony Carroll Jr, Ryan Carberry, Marc Cooper and Michael Monaghan for an organised crime charge covering January 2020 to June 2020.
The men admitted collecting, storing and moving criminal cash linked mainly to cocaine, heroin and cannabis payments. Judge Lord Scott said, “You each took part knowingly for months in a significant organised crime operation.”
Anthony Carroll Sr
Anthony Carroll Sr received four-and-a-half years after the court heard he was in charge of counting, storing and distributing the cash. Leanne Cross said, “He also directed the other four to carry out this work on his behalf.”
Lord Scott described his role as “significant”. He also heard that Carroll Sr kept records of the money under his control and sent lists to higher-ranking members of the group through EncroChat.
Cash records in 2020
The figures shown in court traced the scale of the operation month by month. Carroll Sr recorded £4m as income for the gang in January 2020, £3m in February, £2.6m in March, around £4m in April and £4.8m in the first half of May.
Around £1m was brought in from cannabis trafficking in the early part of 2020. Lord Scott said the snapshots and the scale of the money involved showed it was a multi-million pound operation.
Overseas links and orders
Leanne Cross told the court that Carroll Sr answered to those at the top of the organised crime group, who were, by and large, based overseas. The court also heard that none of the five men were involved in the supply or storage of drugs, even though most of the cash was tied to drug payments.
Alongside the prison terms, each man received a serious crime prevention order. Carroll Sr’s order lasts five years, while the others each last four years.
