Tuesday, 5 February 2013

Show Me The Money: Drug Dealer's Asset's Stripped


A drug dealer, caught in an East End nightclub, has had his car confiscated along wth £19,485 cash and £14,509 seized from his bank account while continuing to serve a sentence of four years and eight months imprisonment.
Antony Hariades, 39, (pictured) of Bramshaw Road, Homerton was arrested at the Catch 22 nightclub in Bethnal Green on March 26, last year with cocaine, cannabis and a quantity of pills.
Police searched his home and founder larger, more varied, amounts of drugs including cocaine, cannabis, ketamine, MDMA, amphetamine and diazepam.
His assets were seized by Hackney Borough's Bantam and Payback Unit under the Proceeds of Crime Act and included all available money and his £4,225 Audi A3.
Detective Constable Nerys Lloyd George of the unit said: "This investigation has removed a substantial amount of drugs destined for the streets of London and the profits made from drug dealing.

"The case highlights the work that payback units do, working alongside operational teams, ensuring criminals to do not benefit from their activities.
Whatever your lifestyle, the police will pursue you through the courts and take money earned through criminal activity away." 

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