GANGSTER Jamie "The Iceman" Stevenson's taxi firm has been shut down by the courts.
The drugs baron was one of Britain's 10 most powerful criminals until he was caged for almost 13 years in 2007.
Since then, his wife Caroline has been battling to keep their cab firm, CS Cars, on the road.
Glasgow council chiefs stripped the firm of their 10 private-hire licences last year after police proved the Skodas they used were bought with £100,000 of drugs cash.
Caroline, 49, appealed against the decision and kept the firmtrading.
But sheriff Alan Mackenzie has ruled the case put forward by her was "irrelevant" - and ordered her to pay legal costs.
Her lawyers claimed the 10 Skoda Octavias - operating in Glasgow's west end - were not bought with criminal proceeds and were "purchased with cheques from James Stevenson's bank account".
But the appeal heard Stevenson had admitted buying the cars with dirty cash when he pleaded guilty to laundering a total of £1million at the High Court last year.
Sheriff Mackenzie said: "The appellant's case is irrelevant."
He added that it appeared Mrs Stevenson's legal team were urging him to re-examine the evidence produced at the High Court.
He said that wasn't the role of the appeal, or the job of the council, who correctly made their decision based on her husband's admissions.
A police source said: "We're trying to eradicate the well known links between organised criminals and the taxi trade in Scotland.
"This is just one battle won as part of the ongoing war."
Stevenson, 43, was jailed for 12 years and nine months in April 2007.
Police and prosecutors nailed him under proceeds of crime legislation after bugging his flat in Burnside, Glasgow, during Scotland's biggest crackdown on organised crime, Operation Folklore.
He set up his international drug smuggling operation after a violent split from the Glasgow crime gang led by Tony McGovern, who was murdered in 2000.
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