Dec 2006

• 19/12/06 ARA SECURES CONFISCATION OF £1,079,644 IN PROSTITUTION CASE
  Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) Financial Investigators, working in partnership with Thames Valley Police, have secured a Confiscation Order for £1,079,644 against Jonathon Leeming of Stratfield, Basingstoke, Hampshire, who was convicted of conspiracy to control prostitutes and was sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment in January 2006 ......
• 13/12/06 ARA SECURES £60,000 CONFISCATION ORDER AGAINST CONVICTED COUNTERFEITER
  Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) Financial Investigators, working in partnership with Essex County Council Trading Standards, Cambridge County Council Trading Standards, British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT), have secured a Confiscation Order worth £60,681 against Peter William Axford of Kilmartin Road, Ilford, Essex, who is a convicted counterfeiter ......
• 08/12/06 CONVICTED COUNTERFEITER FORCED TO PAY ARA OR FACE JAIL
  A convicted counterfeiter who was facing a jail sentence for failing to pay £34,447 to the Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) has narrowly avoided prison by transferring the money he owed to the Agency at the last minute ......
• 07/12/06 ARA SECURES £159,000 CONFISCATION ORDER AGAINST PROPERTY ENTREPRENEUR
  Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) Financial Investigators, working in partnership with the London Borough of Waltham Forest Council's Corporate Audit and Anti Fraud Team (CAAFT), have secured a Confiscation Order for £159,000 against Elaine Henry of Albert Road, Walthamstow, who was convicted of falsely claiming more than £60,000 of local authority benefits ......
• 05/12/06 ARA RECOVERS £200,000 FROM ESTATE OF ALLEGED DRUG DEALER
  The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) was granted a Civil Recovery Order on assets worth around £200,000 earlier today in the High Court in Belfast in respect of the estate of the late Paul Patrick Daly. ......
• 05/12/06 ARA SECURES £55,000 ORDER AGAINST EBAY COUNTERFEITER
  Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) Financial Investigators, working in partnership with the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT), have secured a Confiscation Order for £55,000 against Peter David Spencer of Oakhall Park, Bradford, following his conviction for selling pirate DVDs. ......

Nov 2006

• 21/11/06 ARA FREEZES £1.5 MILLION OF PROPERTY IN MANCHESTER
  The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) has been granted orders in the High Court in London freezing £1,579,127 worth of property in Manchester which the Agency alleges is funded from money laundering, fuel smuggling and mortgage fraud. This follows the investigation of a case referred to the Agency by the Metropolitan Police Service. ......
• 14/11/06 Edward Cash
  The Assets Recovery Agency has frozen £36,000 worth of assets belonging to a man being sought in connection with a string of distraction burglaries in South Yorkshire and West Mercia. ......
• 14/11/06 ASSETS RECOVERY AGENCY REACHES SETTLEMENT IN CO. DOWN BENEFIT FRAUD
  The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) has successfully settled another case referred to it by the Northern Ireland Social Security Agency (NISSA). This particular case concerns the assets of Robert Martin Stevenson of Donard Crescent, Annalong. ......
• 02/11/06 AGENCY RECOVERS THREE EAST LONDON HOUSES FROM A DECEASED DRUG SMUGGLER
  The Assets Recovery Agency has recovered three East London properties from the late Cecilia Obialo, who died from a drug overdose as a result of smuggling 12 packages of cocaine into the UK. ......

Oct 2006

• 03/10/06 £18.5M TO BE RECOVERED FROM ASSETS LINKED TO VAT "CAROUSEL" FRAUD
  Dylan Creaven, acquitted of missing trader VAT fraud last year, has agreed to pay £18.5m to the Assets Recovery Agency and the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) in the Republic of Ireland in respect of property which resulted from the VAT fraud ......

Sep 2006

• 12/09/06 ARA REACHES SETTLEMENT IN BENEFIT FRAUD CASE
  The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) has successfully settled a case referred to it by the Northern Ireland Social Security Agency (NISSA) concerning the property of a male in Antrim ......
• 01/09/06 SALE OF HIDDEN GEMS HOARD HELPS ARA RAISE OVER £700,000 FROM FORFEITED ASSETS
  The recovery of an off-shore bank account and sale of a detached house have raised £650,000 following an investigation by the Assets Recovery Agency. Jewellery and watches secreted around the Gerrards Cross luxury home of Ronald David Barry, convicted in 2002 of handling stolen jewellery, were auctioned for more than £52,000 ......

Aug 2006

• 02/08/06 £319,000 SALE OF CRIMINAL ASSETS TO FUND FUTURE CRIME FIGHTING INITIATIVES
  £319,000 SALE OF CRIMINAL ASSETS TO FUND FUTURE CRIME FIGHTING INITIATIVES Property purchased with criminal funds have been seized by the Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) and sold off to raise £319,240 which will be channelled into the ongoing fight against crime. Satnam Singh of Cleadon, Sunderland, convicted of excise fraud from the sale of alcoholic drink, surrendered his assets to ARA last December which have now been sold off to raise the following sums of money: • £57,000 from the sale o ......

Jul 2006

• 17/07/06 ARA SECURES CONFISCATION OF £80,000 FROM CONVICTED CAR-CLOCKER
  Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) Financial Investigators, working in partnership with Herefordshire Council Trading Standards Service, have secured a Confiscation Order worth £80,000 against convicted car-clocker Reginald Michael Fear formerly of The Stepping Stones, St. Anne’s Park, Bristol ......
• 14/07/06 ARA FREEZES £1.7M ASSETS IN VAT FRAUD PROBE
  The Assets Recovery Agency has been granted a Property Freezing Order over assets estimated at £1.7m held by Hussain Sajjad, Ameel Sajjad, Farah Diba Sajjad, Amokrane Sabet, Rehana Mujahid, Vodaman PLC, Curzon Group Holdings Limited and Deauville Properties Limited ......
• 11/07/06 ARA SECURES £68,000 CONFISCATION ORDER IN SURREY COUNTERFEIT GOODS CASE
  Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) Financial Investigators, working in partnership with London Borough of Sutton Trading Standards (STS), have secured a Confiscation Order worth £68,000 against Sheila Anne Hetherington of Pams Way, Ewell, Epsom, Surrey. Ms. Hetherington had previously been convicted of selling counterfeit goods ......
• 10/07/06 ARA’S ACTION UPHELD AGAINST £1.4M ASSETS OF SUSPECTED ARMAGH FUEL SMUGGLER
  Belfast High Court has dismissed an application by Malachy James Molloy and Patricia Molloy, Brootally Road, Armagh to discharge an Interim Receiving Order granted to the Assets Recovery Agency on 13th March 2006 ......
• 06/07/06 £350,000 ASSETS FROZEN IN SUSPECTED EAST BELFAST SMUGGLING CASE
  The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) has been granted an Interim Receiving Order (IRO) at Belfast High Court over assets worth an estimated £350,000 gross which it alleged to the Court were derived from the proceeds of crime ......

Jun 2006

• 30/06/06 ASSETS RECOVERY AGENCY GETS ASSETS WORTH £176,000
  The Assets Recovery Agency has concluded its case involving Glenford Bailey, previously of Caledonian Road, London, N7. Over £38,000 cash plus jewellery and watches has been surrendered to the Agency ......
• 30/06/06 £2 MILLION PROPERTY EMPIRE FROZEN
  The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) has been granted an Interim Receiving Order (IRO) at Belfast High Court over assets worth an estimated £2,034,000 gross which it alleged to the Court were derived from the proceeds of crime ......
• 23/06/06 ARA FREEZES ESTIMATED £750,000 IN ALLEGED LISBURN FRAUD CASE
  The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) has been granted an Interim Receiving Order (IRO) at Belfast High Court on assets worth an estimated £750,000 gross which it alleged to the Court were derived from the proceeds of crime ......
• 22/06/06 FRAUDSTER’S ASSETS CONFISCATED BY ARA AND TORBAY COUNCIL
  Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) Financial Investigators, working in partnership with Torbay Council Housing Benefit Department, have secured a Confiscation Order worth £20,500 against Janet Upton of Climsland Road, Paignton, Devon ......
• 16/06/06 ASSETS RECOVERY AGENCY SECURES CONFISCATION OF OVER £96,000 OF ASSETS
  Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) Financial Investigators, working in partnership with Cumbria Trading Standards (CTS), have secured a Confiscation Order worth £96,172.23 against Paul Lee of Corporation Road, Workington, Cumbria ......
• 14/06/06 OVER £85 MILLION OF CRIMINAL ASSETS UNDER RESTRAINT BY ASSETS RECOVERY AGENCY
  The Assets Recovery Agency published its 2005-06 Annual Report and 2006-07 Business Plan today ......

Apr 2006

• 24/04/06 ARA SECURES £140,000 FROM ALLEGED FUEL SMUGGLING
  The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) has been granted a Civil Recovery Order at the High Court in Belfast for the sum of £140,000. ......
• 20/04/06 ASSETS RECOVERY AGENCY BANKS £50,000 FROM ALLEGED DRUG DEALER
  Jonathan Paul Ferry of Grantham, Lincolnshire dropped his challenge to the Agency’s claim for a civil recovery order and has surrendered £50,000 ......

Mar 2006

• 31/03/06 ARA FREEZES £2.6 MILLION OF ASSETS IN SUSPECTED FUEL LAUNDERING CASE
  The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) has been granted an Interim Receiving Order (IRO) at Belfast High Court on assets worth an estimated £2.6 million gross which it alleged to the Court were derived from unlawful conduct. ......
• 30/03/06 ARA FREEZES ASSETS OF SUSPECTED CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY FRAUDSTERS
  The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) has been granted an Interim Receiving Order (IRO) at Belfast High Court on assets worth an estimated £500,000 gross which it alleged to the Court were derived from the proceeds of construction industry fraud and the evasion of VAT. ......
• 24/03/06 ARA SECURES FIRST NI PROPERTY FREEZING ORDER IN SUSPECTED DRUG DEALING CASE
  The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) secured its first Property Freezing Order in Northern Ireland at the High Court in Belfast on 16th March 2006. The Order relates to assets worth an estimated £175,000 gross held by Darryl Price and Sarah Ward of Primrose Gardens, Portrush, County Antrim ......
• 23/03/06 ARA SECURES CONFISCATION OF OVER £66,000 ASSETS IN DRUGS CASE
  Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) Financial Investigators, working in partnership with Cleveland Police and the Crown Prosecution Service, were successful in obtaining a Confiscation Order in the sum of £66,165.81 against Kenneth Peers of Del Strother Avenue, Stockton on Tees ......
• 17/03/06 ASSETS RECOVERY AGENCY SECURES CONFISCATION OF £90,000 ASSETS
  Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) Financial Investigators, working in partnership with Cheshire County Council Trading Standards, were successful in obtaining two Confiscation Orders each in the sum of £45,000 against Jerzy and Linda Madejczyk of London Road South, Poynton, Cheshire. Both were previously convicted of selling counterfeit goods ......
• 16/03/06 ARA FREEZES £1.4 MILLION OF ASSETS IN SUSPECTED ARMAGH FUEL SMUGGLING CASE
  The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) has been granted an Interim Receiving Order (IRO) at Belfast High Court on assets worth an estimated £1,400,000 gross which it alleged to the Court were derived from the proceeds of fuel smuggling, false accounting and money laundering ......
• 07/03/06 ARA AND DERBY TRADING STANDARDS SECURE £17K COUNTERFEITER CONFISCATION
  Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) Financial Investigators, working in partnership with Derby Trading Standards, were successful in obtaining a Confiscation Order in the sum of £17,415 against John Wagstaff of Farneworth Road, Mickleover ......
• 03/03/06 ARA AND SURREY TRADING STANDARDS CONFISCATE FRAUDSTER’S ASSETS
  Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) Financial Investigators, working in partnership with Surrey Trading Standards Authority, were successful in obtaining a Confiscation Order in the sum of £354,049 against Lee Thomas Martin of Downsview, Banstead, Surrey ......
• 02/03/06 ASSETS RECOVERY AGENCY FREEZES ASSETS OF CONVICTED DISTRACTION BURGLAR WHO PREYED ON THE ELDERLY
  The Agency has been granted a Property Freezing Order over assets held by William Cawley Senior of Gladstone Park Gardens, Cricklewood, London NW2. Mr Cawley is currently serving a four and a half year prison sentence for distraction burglaries across the UK including Derbyshire, where vulnerable and elderly people were tricked into letting bogus policemen into their homes whilst accomplices stole cash and pension books ......
• 01/03/06 ARA FREEZES ESTIMATED £3.6 MILLION IN SUSPECTED DRUG SMUGGLING CASE
  The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) has been granted an Interim Receiving Order (IRO) at Belfast High Court on assets worth an estimated £3.6 million gross which it alleged to the Court were derived from the proceeds of drug, fuel and cigarette smuggling and money laundering. ......

Feb 2006

• 28/02/06 ARA AND CHESHIRE TRADING STANDARDS CONFISCATE FRAUDSTER’S ASSETS
  Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) Financial Investigators, working in partnership with Cheshire Trading Standards Authority, were successful in obtaining a Confiscation Order in the sum of £36,473.11 against Sonny Varey of St. Philips Park, Bishop Auckland, County Durham ......
• 20/02/06 ARA AND LEICESTER CONSUMER PROTECTION SERVICE SECURE £74,968 CONFISCATION
  Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) Financial Investigators, working in partnership with Leicester City Council Consumer Protection Service, were successful in obtaining a confiscation order in the sum of £72,968.14 against Hanif Sattar Daud of Dale Street, Leicester ......
• 20/02/06 ARA AND YORK CITY COUNCIL SECURE £39,000 ORDER AGAINST COUNTERFEITER
  Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) Financial Investigators, working in partnership with City of York Council Trading Standards, were successful in obtaining a Confiscation Order in the sum of £39,000 against James Joseph Waldron of Pontefract, West Yorkshire ......
• 01/02/06 ARA FREEZES ASSETS IN TWO SOUTH ARMAGH CASES IN ONE DAY
  The Assets Recovery Agency has obtained court orders resulting in the freezing of assets in Counties Armagh and Louth. In both cases the Agency has alleged that these assets are derived from fuel smuggling, evasion of excise duty and VAT. ......

Jan 2006

• 24/01/06 ASSETS RECOVERY AGENCY GETS FIRST PROPERTY FREEZING ORDERS - OVER £3/4 MILLION RESTRAINED
  The Agency has been granted Property Freezing Orders (PFOs) in two separate cases for assets estimated to be worth over £770,000 ......
• 24/01/06 ASSETS RECOVERY AGENCY FREEZES BANK ACCOUNT
  The Agency has been granted a Freezing Order for assets with a total value of £14,088 held by John Leonard William Smith of Paston Ridings Caravan Site, Peterborough ......
• 18/01/06 ARA and Bexley Council Secure £103,949 in Orders against Fraudster
  Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) Financial Investigators, working in partnership with Bexley Council, were successful in obtaining a confiscation order, compensation order and costs in the sum of £103,949 against Keith Savage of Oakhouse Road, Bexleyheath, Kent. ......
• 13/01/06 ARA And Cumbria Trading Standards Secure £59,625 Confiscation Order
  Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) Financial Investigators, working in partnership with Cumbria Trading Standards (CTS), were successful in obtaining a confiscation order in the sum of £59,625 against Peter Rumney of 45 Corporation Road, Workington, Cumbria. ......
• 10/01/06 ARA and NHS Secure Confiscation of Fraudster Pharmacist's Assets
  Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) Financial Investigators, working in partnership with the National Health Service Counter Fraud Service , were successful in obtaining a confiscation order in the sum of £212,464.17 against Mohammed Shabir of 155 Wigton Lane, Alwoodley, Leeds ......