Proceeds of crime | The Crown Prosecution Service

‘Silly boy’ ordered to pay back ill-gotten gains

A man who told police ‘I’ve been a silly boy’ after being arrested for money laundering and tax evasion will hand over a property worth six figures after agreeing to a Consent Order to recover the proceeds of crime. Christopher Edwards, 72, of Abergavenny in Wales was given the Civil Recovery Order during a hearing in the Royal Courts of Justice today.

Drug dealers and money launderer for Liverpool organised crime family told to pay back money

Four men who worked for a notorious organised crime family in Liverpool have been told that they must pay back £190,000 or face more time in prison.

Gangster brothers involved in cocaine theft from stash house ordered to pay back £81,000

Two brothers from an organised crime family who were jailed for their part in the theft of £1.2 million worth of cocaine from a Liverpool-based organised crime group have been ordered to payback £80,826 or spend nine months more in prison.

Money launderers ordered to pay back over £23m in a high value cryptocurrency scam

Three convicted money launderers, responsible for illegally obtaining Australian dollars and laundering them through cryptocurrency, have today been ordered to pay a total of £23,629,031 through a Confiscation Order made by the court today.

Notice to Victims of the Lantian Gerui Fraud

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has commenced civil recovery proceedings in respect of property which has been seized in the UK from Yadi Zhang (also known as Zhimin Qian) (Zhang) and Jian Wen (Wen), and additional assets.

Heartless romance fraudster ordered to pay back over £30k

A romance fraudster who conned his victim into borrowing money and handing over her savings has been ordered to pay back over £32,000 of the stolen money.

Treasure thief sentenced for five more years in jail for failing to pay back over £600,000 of criminal proceeds

A detectorist who stole an estimated £3m worth of Viking treasure has been sentenced to a further five years and three months in prison after failing to pay back over £600,000.

People smuggler gets nearly a year extra time in jail for failing to payback over £65,000 of criminal profits in the Essex lorry deaths case

Today (11 July 2024) at Margate Magistrates’ Court, Gheorghe Nica, 46, was ordered to serve a further eleven and half months imprisonment after failing to payback £65,157.65 which he was ordered to pay in a proceeds of crime confiscation hearing. All of the Confiscation Order monies recovered from Nica, which a Judge has determined is his available assets, will be paid by way of compensation to the families of the 39 victims.

Drug dealer who sold deadly ‘weight loss pills’ pays back £23,000 in first Monero cryptocurrency payout

A British man convicted of selling a deadly substance that was falsely marketed as a ‘weight loss’ drug has been forced to hand over £23,000 that he made from his crime.

Millionaire landlady jailed for Modern Slavery offences forced to pay £200k to victim

A landlady who was jailed for keeping a vulnerable woman in domestic servitude has had to sell a property to pay the victim back almost £200,000.

Farzana Kausar, formerly of Worthing, was jailed for six years and eight months on 21 December 2022 at Lewes Crown Court after she was found guilty of one count of holding a person in slavery or servitude and one count of perverting the course of justice.

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