A Lanarkshire vodka firm with links to a notorious Irish drug crime family has been put on a red list by the United States government - banning it from trading in the USA.
Nero Drinks Company Ltd, based at a home address in Stepps, has been named as a key asset of the Kinahan family's operations by investigators from the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
The company, which produces Nero Vodka, is owned 'directly or indirectly' by Johnny Morrissey - a close pal and public supporter of gangster Daniel Kinahan.