Mar 2008

• 16/03/08 ARA SECURES £5.375 MILLION CRIMINAL ASSETS FROM SURREY MORTGAGE FRAUDSTER AND MONEY LAUNDERER
  The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) has been granted an Order by the High Court in London to recover £5.375 million of criminal assets. ......
• 12/03/08 CRIMINAL ASSETS SELL FOR £296,300
  A collection of antique fishing gear seized by the Assets Recovery Agency from a drug dealer and alleged money launderer went under the hammer yesterday at a specialist auction in Gloucestershire and realised £296,300. ......
• 06/03/08 ARA FREEZES ASSETS OF CONVICTED NAIL BAR TECHNICIAN
  The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) has been granted a Property Freezing Order in the High Court in London over assets with an estimated net value of £389,000 held by Phu Ha Bui of Ipswich Road, Colchester. ......
• 03/03/08 ARA SEIZES £400,000 WORTH OF ASSETS OF CONVICTED MURDERER
  The Assets Recovery Agency has won its latest civil recovery action in the High Court in London resulting in the seizure of assets, worth an estimated £400,000, held by or on behalf of John Paul Allan, formerly of Nottingham but originally from Doncaster. ......

Feb 2008

• 26/02/08 ARA FREEZES ASSETS OF CONVICTED MONEY LAUNDERER
  The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) has been granted a Property Freezing Order over assets with an estimated net value of £202,500 held by Paul Andrew Newmarsh of Hollyhurst Grove, Solihull, West Midlands. ......
• 22/02/08 ARA FREEZES £74,244.45 OF FORMER CUSTOMS OFFICER ASSETS
  The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) has been granted a Property Freezing Order over assets with an estimated net value of £74,244.45 held by or on behalf of James Anthony Sloan of La Salle Park, Belfast. ......
• 22/02/08 FISHERMEN ILLEGAL BLACK FISHING
  The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA), working in partnership with the Marine and Fisheries Agency (MFA), an executive agency of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), has successfully concluded a criminal confiscation investigation resulting in six Confiscation Orders totalling £ 891,196.58 at Newcastle Crown Court yesterday. ......
• 21/02/08 £2.7 MILLION WORTH OF CRIMINAL ASSETS GO UNDER THE HAMMER IN BELFAST
  An estimated £2.7 million worth of criminal assets seized by the Assets Recovery Agency in Northern Ireland go under the hammer in Belfast tonight.The Agency has arranged for the sale by public auction of 18 seized residential properties that were obtained through the proceeds of wide range of serious criminal activity. ......
• 20/02/08 CRIMINAL ASSETS SELL FOR £617,000
  A total of nine properties in Liverpool, Oldham and Romford seized by the Assets Recovery Agency have been sold at public auction for £617,000. The net proceeds of the sale, minus mortgage and other liabilities, is £479,000 which will now be recycled into the fight against crime. ......
• 18/02/08 ARA SECURES SETTLEMENT OF £40,000 FROM EAST BELFAST WOMAN
  The Assets Recovery Agency has been granted an Order to recover £40,000 by the High Court in Belfast. The Consent Order was granted following an agreed settlement between the Agency and Brenda Marie Gowdy of Mountpottinger, East Belfast. ......
• 13/02/08 FORMER LANDFILL SITE OWNER PAYS THE PRICE OF ILLEGAL WASTE
  The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) working in partnership with the Environment and Heritage Service (EHS) and Public Prosecution Service of Northern Ireland (PPS) has successfully concluded a criminal confiscation investigation resulting in the Crown Court at Laganside today granting a Confiscation Order in the sum of £400,000 in respect of the former owner of Craigmore Landfill Site convicted on a single count of keeping and disposing of illegal waste, (and a further count of breach of the water ......
• 11/02/08 SETTLEMENT FROM TOP CARZ BOSS
  The Assets Recovery Agency has been granted an Order to recover assets worth at least £180,000 by the High Court in Belfast. The Recovery Order was granted following an agreed settlement between the Agency and Gerard John Mulligan of Berkeley Hall, Lisburn, County Antrim. ......
• 06/02/08 SETTLEMENT MIDDLESBROUGH AQUITTED DRUG TRAFFICKER
  The Assets Recovery Agency has been granted a Civil Recovery Order to recover an estimated £537,000 worth of assets held by Andrew John Pickering of Nunthorpe Gardens, Middlesbrough. The High Court order follows an agreed settlement between the respondent and the Agency. ......
• 05/02/08 OVERS £750,000 WORTH OF ASSETS OF INTERNATIONAL PEOPLE TRAFFICKER
  The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) has obtained a Civil Recovery Order in the High Court in London worth an estimated £750,000 against Gheorghe and Victoria Virtosu, Crescent Way, Norbury, London. ......

Jan 2008

• 22/01/08 COUNTERFEITER’S ASSETS CONFISCATED BY ARA AND LEICESTER TRADING STANDARDS
  Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) Financial Investigators, working in partnership with Leicester Trading Standards, have secured a Confiscation Order worth £77,500 against Steve Edward Walters aged 46 of 1 Short Row Cottage, Newton Harcourt, Leicestershire. ......
• 17/01/08 ARA SECURES 40 PROPERTIES WORTH £4 MILLION IN ITS LATEST SETTLEMENT
  The Assets Recovery Agency has been granted an Order to recover assets worth a minimum of £4 million by the High Court in Belfast. The Consent Order was granted following an agreed settlement between the Agency and Collin Robert Armstrong and Geraldine Enda Mallon of Tullynewbank Road, Glenavy, Co Antrim. ......
• 14/01/08 ARA HELPS REACH SETTLEMENT IN MCGINLEY CASE
  The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) has reached a settlement in a case concerning the property of Julie McGinley, who was convicted of the murder of her husband Gerald John McGinley at the family home on 13 August 2000. ......
• 07/01/08 ARA IN SETTLEMENT OVER ASSETS OF MURDERED SURREY MAN
  The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) has reached a settlement of a minimum value of £660,000 over the estate of Daniel Leonard Blackett, who was shot on the doorstep of his home in Virginia Water Surrey in September 2004. ......