Dec 2008
Confiscation order for ex-bank manager - 23 Dec 2008
David Hedges, 50 of Church Wynd, Sherburn, Durham, a retired bank manager, purported to be a respectable financial advisor and book-keeper when he was introduced to Mrs Fawcett as the solution to dealing with all financial matters within her expanding successful nursing recruitment firm, Nursing staff Solutions. He used his expertise to deceive Mrs Fawcett by disguising he had appropriated £918,570.93 of Nursing Staff Solutions funds to support a rich lifestyle and several other companies in wh ......
Oct 2008
Abattoir confiscation - October 2008 - 23 Oct 2008
On 16th October 2008, a former abattoir manager, Ibrahim Moosa Yusuf, had a confiscation order in the sum of £317,135 made against him following a hearing at Leeds Crown Court before His Honour Judge McGill. Ibrahim Yusuf was given 6 months to pay the order. In addition to this the judge also imposed a default term of imprisonment of 3 years and 3 months should the order not be satisfied within the given time limit. The service of a default sentence does not negate the debt and this would remain ......
North East News - Benefit Fraudster, Brian Sutcliffe - 20 Oct 2008
Brian Sutcliffe aged 74 of Thistlebottom, Charles-Town, Hebden Bridge was also jailed in February 2008 for 3 years after pleading guilty at York Crown Court for false accounting, retaining a wrongful credit and making a false statement in relation to his fraudulent benefit claims amounting to approximately £145,000 which equates to £17,000 per year of public money through the offending period. ......
Sep 2008
NEWS - Derek George Confiscation - 01 Sep 2008
On 19th September 2008 at Hull Crown Court, he was given 6 months to pay with a default sentence of 3 years. The court declared his benefit from crime to be £494,241.58. ......
Aug 2008
RART North East News - Trading Standards Confiscation - 20 Aug 2008
As a result of an investigation undertaken by North Yorkshire County Council Trading Standards, the defendant, Jonathan Mills admitted offering counterfeit movie DVDs for sale in contravention of the Copyright. Designs and Patents Act 1988 and was fined £300 by the court and ordered to pay costs in excess of £4000. ......
RART North East News - Op Alarm - 20 Aug 2008
Their offences were facilitated by a salesman who used high-pressure sales to persuade elderly victims to part with thousands of pounds for air purifiers, dehumidifiers and maintenance contracts at vastly inflated prices initially gaining their trust by purporting to work for a security company with whom they already had contract. ......
RART NE News - Op Churchill - 20 Aug 2008
This operation is an example of the cradle to grave process promoted at the North East Regional Asset Recovery Team which has a pro-active money laundering investigation team as well as a confiscation capability. ......
Longhurst / Cadogan - RART Confiscation Order - 19 Aug 2008
Mark Longhurst (aka Cadogan), a 45 year old international drug dealer from Newcastle was jailed in April 2008 for 10 years and ordered to pay £923,757. ......
RART North East News August '08 - 19 Aug 2008
Following a 2004 investigation into the illegal smuggling and trading of duty free cigarettes and tobacco across South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, code name Operations Eons, seven people were brought to justice and received varying punishments fr ......
Jul 2008
Successful Appeal - Parvinder Panesar - 18 Jul 2008
The Court of Appeal Criminal Division agreed to vary the confiscation order for a man convicted of conspiracy to supply Class A drugs, Parvinder Panesar, by in excess of £140,000 to the sum of £174,087. ......
3 Orders for WYP, HP, and NYP - 18 Jul 2008
3 confiscation orders obtained for West Yorkshire, Humberside and North Yorkshire Police referrals ......
Jun 2008
Routledge confiscation order for £110,000 - 20 Jun 2008
A confiscation order of £110,000 was made on 17 July 2008 at Newcastle Crown Court against Alan Routledge who sold fake motorbike leathers through his internet company Click2Buy, based in Jarrow. ......
Confiscation - Op Laser - 01 Jun 2008
Following the confiscation order in the sum of £923,757 made against Mark Longhurst (aka Cadogan) in April 2008, his co-defendants have also had the proceeds of their crimes stripped away from them. On 23 May 2008 at Newcastle Crown Court, Timothy Lister aged 33 of Holly Hill Gardens, South Stanley, County Durham had a confiscation order in the sum of £20,000 made against him. The court had also determined that this was his benefit for the part he played in the conspiracy to supply cann ......
Mar 2008
Lily Lee Confiscation - 14 Mar 2008
Following a referral to NE Regional Asset Recovery Team (RART) by South Yorkshire Police, a confiscation order in the sum of £2.8 million was made at Sheffield Crown Court on 6th March 2008 by HHJ Keen against Lily LEE. The judge also made a 10 year default sentence. ......

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