News2007

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19/12/07 Issue No 94 - 19/12/07
On 13 December 2007 the Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) reached a successful settlement in the High Court, London for £100,940 concerning the assets of a man from High Wycombe, Bucks. ......

22/11/07 Issue No 93 - 22/11/07
On 13 November 2007 at Inner London Crown Court a confiscation order worth nearly £41 million was obtained as a result of a joint investigation between the Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) , Thames Valley Police and the Serious Fraud Office (SFO). ......
01/11/07 Issue No 92 - 01/11/07
On 30 October 2007 the Serious Crime Bill received Royal Assent. The measures in the Serious Crime Act 2007 will help deliver the Government's strategy to tackle serious organised crime and target the behaviour of those who profit from damage to communities. ......

12/10/07 Issue No 91 - 12/10/07
On 24 July 2007 at Blackfriars Crown Court a disqualified director was ordered to pay a confiscation order of £360,000. He had been prosecuted by the Department for Business Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR Formerly the D.T.I), who have their own in-house financial investigation officers. ......
04/10/07 Issue No 90 - 04/10/07
On 17 September 2007 Hertfordshire Police reported that four men have between them received 19 charges in relation to Proceeds of Crime offences after several camper vans believed to be stolen and put on false number plates were seized during an operation in Hemel Hempstead. ......

18/09/07 Issue No 89 - 18/09/07
On 6 September 2007 at Newcastle Crown Court a cigarette smuggler was ordered to pay back £400,000 or face a further three and a half years in prison in default. Earlier in December 2006 the man from Newcastle upon Tyne was jailed for four years as a result of a successful prosecution brought by the Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office (RCPO). ......

24/08/07 Issue No 88 - 24/08/07
On 1 August 2007 a man convicted of drugs and firearms offences was ordered to pay a Confiscation Order for £483,805 within six months or face an additional default prison sentence of three years and six months. ......
07/08/07 Issue No 87 - 07/08/07
Staffordshire Police’s Economic Crime Unit has announced that during the first four months of this financial year they have stripped £1,084,574 in assets from criminals in the region. ......

13/07/07 Issue No 86 - 13/07/07
On 5 July 2007 at Blackfriars Crown Court a former local authority finance officer from Whitstable, Kent was sentenced to two and a half years' in prison after pleading guilty to ten counts of fraud and was ordered to pay back £93,569. ......
06/07/07 Issue No 85 - 06/07/07
On 28 and 29 June 2007 Salford Police, working with Salford Trading Standards Officers and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), carried out raids at Salford Market and seized counterfeit goods with an estimated value of over £250,000. ......

22/06/07 Issue No 84 - 22/06/07
West Midlands Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) together with the Financial Investigation Unit of West Midlands Police and the Enforcement Team at HM Court Service in Birmingham have collected over £2 m from confiscated assets of criminals in the region during 2006/2007. ......
08/06/07 Issue No 83 - 08/06/07
On 24 May 2007 Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker announced tough Government proposals to give law enforcement agencies new powers to make it easier to seize criminals' luxury possessions and high value goods used in crime, such as cars and boats. ......

04/05/07 Issue No 82 - 04/05/07
On 19 April 2007 at Sheffield Crown Court, the Serious Fraud Office successfully obtained a confiscation order against a convicted fraudster currently serving eighteen months in prison. ......

30/03/07 Issue No 81 - 30/03/07
On 23 March 2007 at Croydon Crown Court a convicted counterfeiter was ordered to pay back £191,000 within six months or face three years imprisonment in default. ......
09/03/07 Issue No 80 - 09/03/07
On 6th March 2007 the Assets Recovery Agency were granted a Property Freezing Order for assets estimated to be worth in the region of £312,500 net held by one man and two women. ......

14/02/07 Issue No 79 - 14/02/07
On 17 January the Home Office published the Serious Crime Bill. The new measures will make life more difficult for serious criminals by disrupting their operations, as well as ensuring that they do not benefit from the harm they cause to the public. ......
02/02/07 Issue No 78 - 02/02/07
On 20 November the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) reported that the former chairman and chief executive of the Versailles Group convicted in 2004 of defrauding investors in Versailles Traders Ltd/Trading Partners Ltd, has paid over £10 million in confiscation. ......