Nov 2005

• 04/11/05 Issue 61 - 04/11/05
  On 1st August 2005 at Cardiff Crown Court a man was ordered to pay a confiscation order to the value of £56,242 within 90 days or face a further two years imprisonment. The defendant’s home address was searched in August 2004 and two nine ounce bars of cannabis resin, over 36,000 cigarettes and 10 kilos of rolling tobacco were recovered ......

Oct 2005

• 13/10/05 Issue 60 - 13/10/05
  On 28th September 2005 at the Central Criminal Court a confiscation order of £512,458 was made against a man who was convicted in February 2005 of murder, conspiracy to supply heroin and possession of 15.96 kg of heroin following an investigation by Operation Trident officers. ......

Sep 2005

• 23/09/05 Issue 59 - 23/09/05
  On 9 September at the High Court, Belfast the Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) was granted an Interim Receiving Order on property worth approximately £3 million. The properties and other assets were held by a woman from Belfast, who was trading as Parkdale Homes from her home address. ......

Aug 2005

• 25/08/05 Issue 58 25/08/05
  joint Waltham Forest Trading Standards and London Regional Asset Recovery Team (RART) financial investigation resulted in a total confiscation order of £1.5million being granted against two men behind one of Britain's biggest DVD piracy rings. ......
• 18/08/05 Issue 57 - 18/08/05
  Following a confiscation enquiry by Enfield Asset Confiscation Unit drug dealers have now been forced to sell their investments, cars and houses to pay a confiscation order. On Wednesday 3 August 2005 at Wood Green Crown Court His Honour Judge W Pawlak declared that four defendants had enjoyed a criminal benefit of £302,449 and issued confiscation orders totalling £149,785. ......
• 12/08/05 Issue 56 - 12/08/05
  In June 2005 Leeds Magistrates enforced a default sentence for the non payment of a £40,500 confiscation order. The man had visited a high street bank on four consecutive days and obtained £10k by using false documents. ......

Jul 2005

• 08/07/05 Issue 55 - 08/07/05
  The ETF has collected a £301,397 confiscation order made against a man in 1996. In June 1988, 272kgs of cannabis was seized by Customs officers in Barking, East London. The man concerned evaded capture and was not arrested until six years later in August 1994. ......
• 01/07/05 Issue 54 - 01/07/05
  On 25th June 2005 at Southwark Crown Court a man was ordered to pay a £10 million plus confiscation order in relation to company fraud. The defendant was convicted on 25 May 2004 and sentenced on 8 June 2004 when he received six years imprisonment and was disqualified from acting as a company director for 10 years. ......

Jun 2005

• 24/06/05 Issue 53 - 24/06/05
  On 26 May 2005 a confiscation order was made against a man in the sum of £117,000 with a maximum of 12 months to pay or face an additional two years imprisonment in default as a result of a financial investigation carried out by Suffolk Financial Investigation Unit. ......
• 10/06/05 Issue 52 - 10/06/05
  On 24 May 2005 at Kingston Crown Court a man was ordered to pay a confiscation order to the value of £1, 593,733 within twelve months or face a further six years imprisonment in default as a result of a Department for Work and Pensions prosecution. ......

May 2005

• 26/05/05 Issue 51 - 26/05/05
  On 6th May 2005 at Kingston Crown Court a man was ordered to payback £15,000 in six months or face a default sentence of nine months imprisonment. The man had earlier pleaded guilty to a conspiracy to rob - he had provided intelligence in respect of the location of valuable computer systems at business premises in the south of England in 2003 and was responsible for directing a team of armed robbers / aggravated burglars to business premises to steal the computers. ......
• 06/05/05 Issue 50 - 06/05/05
  On 27 April 2005 at Guildford Crown Court an accountant from Haslemere in Surrey found guilty of fraud also faced a confiscation order of £54,010 or a further 19 months in prison.He was charged with eight counts of defrauding the Inland Revenue. Investigations found that interest he was receiving from bank accounts in the Channel Islands amounting to £100,000 was not being shown on his Tax Returns. ......

Apr 2005

• 28/04/05 Issue 49 - 28/04/05
  On 5 April 2005 the former Financial Director of a Nottingham based company was ordered to pay a compensation order for £17,763. A serving magistrate from January 1999 to September 2002, he pleaded guilty to four counts of fraud and admitted failing to account correctly to the Inland Revenue for the tax and National Insurance Contributions owing under the PAYE scheme in respect of this company. ......
• 14/04/05 Issue 48 - 14/04/05
  The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA), Belfast were granted three Interim Receiving Orders totalling just under £5 million during March 2005. On Wednesday 16th March 2005 an Interim Receiving Order was granted at the High Court, Belfast for assets valued at an estimated £300,000 held by a couple from Portadown. ......
• 06/04/05 Issue 47 - 06/04/05
  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. ......

Mar 2005

• 17/03/05 Issue 46 - 17/03/05
  Avon and Somerset Financial Investigation Unit obtained two major cash seizures within 48 hours of each other. On 25th January, the Fraud Squad and Financial Investigation Unit officers, investigating a major fraud on a local financial institution arrested the last (and main) suspect from a local address. ......

Feb 2005

• 24/02/05 Issue 45 - 24/02/05
  The Assets Recovery Agency working in partnership with Lancashire Constabulary assisted in the recovery of £690,000 - the proceeds of thefts carried out by a Darwen solicitor. ......
• 17/02/05 Issue 44 - 17/02/05
  On February 4 2005 at Marylebone Magistrates Court, HM Customs and Excise was granted three forfeiture orders totalling £1,267,480 (with interest accrued). No one attended these hearings or claimed an interest in the seized cash. Officers from HM Customs and Excise Financial Investigation Branch and the National Crime Squad had seized the money following a detailed surveillance operation. ......
• 03/02/05 Issue 43 - 03/02/05
  On 13 January 2005, a three month Home Office/Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) initiative was launched by Police Forces throughout Britain. Communities are being urged to come forward with information which could give the police the opportunity to help them reclaim their neighbourhoods. ......

Jan 2005

• 27/01/05 Issue 42 - 27/01/05
  In December 2004 the National Crime Squad Financial Investigation Unit recovered £1,981,634 as a result of a confiscation order made by Manchester Crown Court. The assets were recovered following an investigation involving a person in the North of England, who had been approached by officers as a potential witness in another investigation. ......
• 06/01/05 Issue 41 - 06/01/05
  On 17 December 2004 at Portsmouth Crown Court, a mother of two children was sentenced to nine months imprisonment suspended for two years and ordered to pay a confiscation order of £184,600 or serve an additional 12 months in prison in default. ......