A box of bananas arrives at Dover and ends up rewriting the story of organised crime in Scotland. What looks like routine paperwork hides 119 foil packages and 952 blocks of cocaine, almost a tonne in total, with an estimated street value of £100 million. The shipment is linked to Glasgow on paper through a fruit market firm, but even that turns out to be another layer of shielding, using a vulnerable person’s identity as camouflage.

We tell the full rise of Jamie Stevenson, better known in Glasgow as the Iceman, from the specific geography of North Glasgow and Springburn in the post-industrial 1990s to an operation that reaches into South America. Along the way we unpack what makes his approach different: not constant violence or flashy status, but structure. Stevenson builds systems that keep him distant from the product, the transactions, and the scenes that police can easily pin to a single individual, while still controlling the supply chain and the money.

The trail runs through major investigations such as Operation Folklore and Operation Pepperoni, a street Valium manufacturing operation that churns out 13.5 million tablets in a Kent factory, and a moment in Spain that shows just how untouchable he believes he is. We also follow the part that rarely gets the headlines: money laundering, legitimate fronts, and the slow, grinding work of asset recovery after conviction.

If you care about Glasgow true crime, drug trafficking networks, Border Force seizures, and how modern criminal enterprises are engineered, you’ll want this one. Subscribe, share the episode with someone who loves investigative storytelling, and leave us a review with your answer: what actually brings a criminal empire down?