Dec 2005

• 22/12/05 Assets of Alleged Loan Shark and Extortionist Frozen
  The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) has been granted an Interim Receiving Order in the Belfast High Court on assets with an estimated current net value of £406,000. An Interim Receiver has now taken control of the properties and other assets in the possession of Melville Matthews of Steeple Road, Kells, Co. Antrim. ......
• 20/12/05 Convicted Excise Cheat to pay Assets Recovery Agency £300,000
  Satnam Singh of Cleadon, Sunderland has dropped his challenges to the Agency’s claim for a civil recovery order and will now surrender assets with an estimated value of some £300,000 that represent the proceeds of his criminal activities. ......
• 02/12/05 ARA Assists in Confiscation of Over £4 million in Mortgage Fraud Case
  Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) Financial Investigators, working in partnership with South Wales Police and the Crown Prosecution Service, were successful in obtaining a confiscation order in the sum of £4.2 million against David Edward Dale from Bryncoch, Neath. ......

Nov 2005

• 25/11/05 The Late Jim Gray's Assets Frozen: ARA
  The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) has been granted a freezing order at the High Court in Belfast on the assets of the alleged former brigadier of the UDA in East Belfast, the late James (Jim) Smyth Gray currently estimated to be worth £200,000 gross. ......
• 10/11/05 ARA Seeks Assets of Murdered Drug Dealer
  The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) was granted an Interim Receiving Order at Belfast High Court on 10 November over assets from the estate of the late Paul Downey, currently estimated to be worth £387,000. ......

Oct 2005

• 24/10/05 Suspected Distributor of Counterfeit Goods to pay £71,000 in Tax to ARA
  The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) has won its first contested case using its taxation powers, which will see a convicted criminal suspected of distributing counterfeit goods forced to pay tax of £52,298 plus interest of £18,983, a total of £71,281. ......
• 13/10/05 ARA Assists in Confiscation of over £90,000 in Counterfeiting Case
  Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) Financial Investigators, working in partnership with Swansea City Council Trading Standards, were successful in obtaining a confiscation order in the sum of £91,391 against Yosef Arvatz of 9 Kensington Way, Borehamwood, London. ......
• 06/10/05 ARA Investigates £30 million Property Portfolio in Manchester Area
  The Assets Recovery Agency has conducted a number of searches in the Manchester area in connection with a property portfolio that has been acquired over a period of time and which is believed to be worth in the region of £30 million. ......
• 04/10/05 ARA Wins £35,000 Civil Recovery Order
  The High Court in London granted the Assets Recovery Agency summary judgment against Robert Lloyd Woodstock of Wolverhampton to recover assets of £35,000 gained through living off immoral earnings. ......
• 03/10/05 eBay Counterfeiter Must Forfeit £70,000
  Assets Recovery Agency Financial Investigators working in partnership with the London Borough of Croydon Trading Standards Authority have made sure that a convicted counterfeiter who sold items via the eBay internet auction website under a number of covert identities will not benefit from the proceeds of his crimes. ......
• 02/10/05 ARA Reaches Settlement in Gault Case
  The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) has successfully settled a case concerning the property of Lesley Gault, whose husband Paul was murdered in 2000. ......

Sep 2005

• 30/09/05 ARA Freezes Assets of Alleged Belfast Organised Criminal
  Investigations by the Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) have resulted in the granting of an Interim Receiving Order at the High Court in Belfast on assets held by, or on behalf of, Henry Charles Hayles and his wife Lauziata Hayles of Glenwell Avenue, Glengormley, County Antrim. ......
• 21/09/05 ARA Freezes Fuel Smugglers' Assets
  The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) has been granted an Interim Receiving Order at Belfast High Court on property and other assets worth in excess of £750,000. ......
• 12/09/05 ARA Freezes Property Worth Around £3m In Belfast Benefits Case
  At the High Court in Belfast the Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) has been granted an Interim Receiving Order on property worth approximately £3 million. ......

Aug 2005

• 31/08/05 Assets Recovery Agency Closes Shipman Case
  The Assets Recovery Agency has completed its investigations into jewellery found and seized by Officers of the Greater Manchester Police. ......
• 08/08/05 Assets Recovery Freezes Further £2 Million
  The Agency has been granted two Interim Receiving Orders for assets with a total estimated value in excess of £2 million. ......
• 07/08/05 Assets Recovery Agency Withstands Second Challenge
  Jeffrey Massar yesterday failed to get the High Court in London to dismiss the Assets Recovery Agency’s action to recover assets. ......

Jul 2005

• 21/07/05 ASSETS RECOVERY AGENCY FREEZES OVER £1 MILLION OF ASSETS
  The Assets Recovery Agency has frozen over £1 million of assets in five separate cases across England during June and July linked to a range of criminality including money laundering, theft and large-scale counterfeiting ......
• 06/07/05 Assets Recovery Agency Freezing Order
  A Freezing Order was granted to the Assets Recovery Agency on 4th July in respect of a limited edition Volkswagen Golf R32 which was purchased with £24,000 in cash in December 2003 ......
• 01/07/05 Assets Recovery Agency Helps Gwent Police
  Assets Recovery Agency nvestigators, in partnership with Gwent Police, assisted in the recovery of £948,000 ......

Jun 2005

• 30/06/05 Assets Recovery Agency Freezes £9 Million of Assets
  The Assets Recovery Agency has frozen £9 million of assets in a case involving Dylan Louis Creaven of Knightsbridge ......
• 21/06/05 Assets Recovery Freezes Assets in Belfast
  The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) was granted an Interim Receiving Order at the High Court in Belfast on Tuesday 14th June, for assets valued at an estimated £1.4 million. ......
• 07/06/05 Dynamic Developments in Last Two Years
  The Belfast Branch of the Assets Recovery Agency has seen dynamic development since it was established in February 2003. Last year the Agency succeeded in freezing a further £3.7 million of assets against a target of £3 million ......
• 06/06/05 ASSETS RECOVERY AGENCY FREEZES ANOTHER £2.9m OF ASSETS
  The Assets Recovery Agency announced today that it has frozen another £2.9 million of assets in three cases across England and confiscated £60,500 in a trading standards case in Wales ......
• 06/06/05 Assets Recovery Announces Expansion Plans
  The Assets Recovery Agency announced today that it is expanding capacity as it published its 2004-05 Annual Report and 2005-06 Business Plan. ......

May 2005

• 24/05/05 Shipman Jewellery Case Referred to ARA
  The Assets Recovery Agency can confirm that the case of the Shipman Jewellery has been referred to the Agency by the Greater Manchester Police. ......
• 17/05/05 Assets Recovery Agency Fights Off Challenge
  The Court of Appeal today dismissed Satnam Singh’s appeal that the Assets Recovery Agency could not pursue assets of £300,000 acquired through his unlawful activity. The Agency will now press for the High Court to grant a Civil Recovery Order. ......
• 01/05/05 ARA Seeks Drug Dealer's Assets
  The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) lodged an application for a Civil Recovery Order at Belfast High Court on Thursday 24th March over assets from the estate of the late Paul Patrick Daly, estimated to be worth £180,000. ......

Mar 2005

• 31/03/05 ARA Freezes £200,000 of Criminal Assets
  The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) was granted an Interim Receiving Order by the Belfast High Court on Tuesday 22nd March and an Interim Receiver has now taken control of assets valued at around £200,000. ......
• 23/03/05 £4.8 Million of Assets Frozen
  The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) was granted an Interim Receiving Order at the High Court in Belfast on Wednesday 16th March, and an Interim Receiver has now taken control of assets valued at around £4.8 million. ......
• 18/03/05 Assets Recovery Agency Freezes £300,000 of Assets
  The Assets Recovery Agency was granted an Interim Receiving Order at the High Court in Belfast on Wednesday 16th March for assets valued at an estimated £300,000. ......
• 17/03/05 Assets Recovery Freezes £2 Million of Assets
  The Assets Recovery Agency have restrained £2 million of assets since the end of February in five separate cases throughout England covering a range of criminality including drug trafficking, theft and money laundering. ......
• 08/03/05 Assets Recovery Wins Warnock Case
  The Assets Recovery Agency was granted a Civil Recovery Order totalling some £200,000 earlier today in the High Court in Belfast in respect of the estate of the late Stephen Warnock ......

Feb 2005

• 03/02/05 Assets Recovery Agency Freezes £300,000 of Assets
  The Assets Recovery Agency has been granted a Freezing Order at the High Court in London under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, resulting in the freezing of assets with an estimated value of over £300,000. ......
• 01/02/05 Assets Recovery Agency Freezes Assets
  The Assets Recovery Agency has restrained over £648,000 of assets. The Agency contends that property held by Andrew Pickering of Middlesbrough – 8 houses, 2 vehicles and contents from his luxury home - has been obtained as a result of unlawful conduct linked to drug trafficking ......

Jan 2005

• 27/01/05 Human Rights Ruling in Recovering the Proceeds of Crime Upheld
  The Assets Recovery Agency has won a landmark case in the Court of Appeal for Northern Ireland in proceedings involving Cecil Walsh, a convicted armed robber. ......
• 07/01/05 Human Rights Ruling Upheld
  The Assets Recovery Agency has won a landmark case in the Court of Appeal for Northern Ireland in proceedings involving Cecil Walsh, a convicted armed robber. ......