£25K BITCOIN FUNDED DRUGS EMPIRE

KINGPIN Ross McGill used one bitcoin worth £25,000 to rebuild his drugs empire after running out of cash while on the run in Spain.

- BY JOHN-PAUL CLARK

An underworld source has explained to the Record the series of events that led to the former Union Bears capo moving to the United Arab Emirates and pocketing £1million a month. As we reported, McGill, 31, had built up a significant drug dealing network in Scotland but fled to Marbella in 2022, fearing he would be arrested after French cops cracked encrypted phone network EncroChat.