GLASGOW gang bosses are set to be put behind bars after French detectives infiltrated a secret mobile network used by organised crime gangs.

The Daily Record reports Scottish prosecutors are already taking 11 cases to court and preparing 50 more as part of the biggest police intelligence coup in history. 

It comes after encrypted messaging service EncroChat was breached, with French police hacking into its servers and placing a bug that allowed police to read criminals' chats in real-time. 

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After secretly gathering the locations and identities of users, as well as millions of pictures and messages, they shut it down in June last year.

The service had been used by criminals who used phones with GPS tracking switched off and software that allowed private communications. 

Experts claim Scotland has now been handed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to turn around the country's record on drugs deaths. 

Graeme Pearson, ex-head of the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency and former Labour justice spokesman told the Daily Record that since EncroChat was breached, organised crime figures across Europe have been "severely disrupted".

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Police Scotland carried out Operation Gadget to turn the intelligence into arrests. 

Hugh McHugh, 43, of Glasgow and David Hough, 39, from East Kilbride, were jailed for 11 years and four months between them last year after officers raided a street valium factory in Johnstone and found guns and hand grenades at a property in Glasgow. 

Darren Collin, 29, was sentenced to eight years in 2020 after police began tailing him following a tip-off from French police, with information leading police to £1.3million of heroin and cocaine and £517,000 in cash in Glasgow. 

A Crown Office spokesperson told the Daily Record that the EncroChat breach has so far led to 61 cases, with 11 having already concluded.