Anthony Carroll Sr, 57, was sentenced to four-and-a-half-years, while his son Anthony Carroll Jr, 37, received three years. Ryan Carberry, 46, of Kirkintilloch, was jailed for three years and three months, Marc Cooper, 34, of Maryhill, for two years and nine months, and Michael Monaghan, 37, of Drumchapel, for three years. All five had pleaded guilty to an organised crime charge.
Judge Lord Scott told them: "You each took part knowingly for months in a significant organised crime operation." He said Carroll Sr's role was "significant" because he was "trusted with important parts of the working" of the gang, adding: "The other four, your roles might be lesser roles but serious organised crime groups would not operate as they do without people like you prepared to carry out lesser but crucial roles." Carroll Sr was given a serious crime prevention order lasting five years; the other four received orders lasting four years.
The men were accused of collecting, storing and moving criminal cash, most of which related to payments for cocaine, heroin and cannabis between January and June 2020, though none of them was involved in the supply or storage of drugs. The gang had been kept under watch during the Operation Delfin police probe.
Prosecutor Leanne Cross said Carroll Sr counted, stored and distributed the dirty cash and directed the other four, while answering to those "at the top of the organised crime group, who were, by and large, based overseas". His records, sent to senior gang members over EncroChat, logged around £4m in January 2020, £3m in February, £2.6m in March, around £4m in April and £4.8m in the first half of May, noted as payments for cocaine, plus about £1m from cannabis trafficking. "It is clear Carroll Sr was trusted by the organised crime gang to control vast sums of their cash over a significant period of time," she said.
Police found £780,000 under the floorboards of Carroll Jr's home in May 2020, shortly after his father ordered him to remove money after police swooped on two other gang members. Carberry, described as a "cash collector", helped organise 75 pick-ups totalling more than £6m; £195,000 was discovered in rucksacks at his partner's home. Cooper looked after one of the gang's "cash counting houses" and reported counting £1.8m in a matter of weeks, while officers seized two cash counting machines in a bedroom cupboard at Monaghan's home. The five were paid between £500 and £1,200 a week in "wages".
Simon Gilbride, defending Carroll Sr, said his client's reward was "small but significant" and that he "profoundly regrets" his involvement. Calum Weir, for Carroll Jr, said his client's relationship with his father had ended and that he was "not stepping back from culpability". Ross Yuill said Carberry accepted his role, Tony Lenehan KC said Cooper had acted because of his and his partner's financial circumstances at the time, and Kevin Jarvis acknowledged that custody for Monaghan was "inevitable".
Two other men linked to the dirty cash gang, Alistair MacKenzie, 60, and Daniel Kerrigan, 56, were jailed earlier this year. They were caught after a raid at a warehouse in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, in May 2020.