Dec 2008
Smuggling couple hit ‘The Rocks’ - 19 Dec 2008
In November 2005, Stuart Clifford Murthwaite and his common law partner Catherine Ann Gillen were amongst a number of people arrested in a joint operation by the Lancashire Police Serious and Organised Crime Unit and North West Regional Asset Recovery Team following an investigation into the smuggling of wholesale amounts of tobacco products codenamed Operation Vicarage. This investigation brought to light further offences of money laundering and mortgage fraud. ......
Gizzi Lonely This Christmas - 15 Dec 2008
John Damon Gizzi a convicted gangster has been ordered to serve an extra seven years in jail after failing to repay £2.6m in criminal gains. ......
Nov 2008
Tobacco Ring Goes Up In Smoke - 04 Nov 2008
Brothers Patrick, 47, Plunkett, 44, and Benedict Mackle, 40, from Moy, Co Armagh, pleaded guilty at Belfast Crown Court in November 2007 to smuggling 5,976,200 cigarettes into Northern Ireland in a consignment of wooden flooring. ......
Jul 2008
The Cup Has Finally Run Dry - 01 Jul 2008
The finalisation of this Confiscation Hearing was heard at Liverpool Crown Court on the 12th & 13th June, 2008 before His Honour Judge Globe, when the architect of the criminal conspiracy John Arthur Smith was ordered to pay £622,662 within 6 months. Failure to pay would result in a 5 year consecutive prison sentence added to the 13 years he is currently serving. The Judge declared he had benefited from crime in the sum of £748,343. ......
Go To Jail - 01 Jul 2008
A drug dealer who converted his ill-gotten gains into property has been sent back to jail soon after his release for lying in the course of the Proceeds of Crime Act financial investigation. ......
Apr 2008
Noel Young - 23 Apr 2008
Cumbrian Conman to pay back nearly £7 million. Judge David Aubrey QC ruled that Young had benefitted by more than £10.5 million through a complex operation of buying and selling luxury vehicles and money laundering. Describing the 32 year old, Judge David Aubrey QC said: "The defendant is the sort of man who cannot lie straight in bed at night. Indeed, he would not recognise the truth if it stood up and bit him." ......

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