Posts Tagged ‘Prosecutions’
04.08.09 FSA bans Cornwall broker for fraud
The FSA has banned Cornwall mortgage broker Stephen Sanders for submitting at least three mortgage applications on behalf of customers which he knew contained false and misleading income information. Sanders withheld information from a prospective employer relating to an investigation into him by his former employer which resulted in his suspension. ...
5 June 2009 EUROPE’S ‘BIGGEST PEOPLE SMUGGLER’ JAILED FOR PIZZA PLOT
An Afghan criminal who boasted he was Europe’s biggest people smuggler has been jailed for 9 years for smuggling illegal immigrants into the UK. Two other members of the people smuggling gang were today sentenced to a total of 19 years. The gang is known to be responsible for the illegal immigration ...
3 June 2009 36 million spliffs incinerated as international crime gang is convicted
Over 12.5 tonnes of cannabis resin – enough to produce 36 million spliffs – has been incinerated after an investigation by the Serious Organised Crime Agency. The drugs seizure, from the tug boat ‘Abbira’ which had docked at Southampton, represents one of the largest seizures of cannabis resin in the UK. ...
14.04.09 Crime Pays: Cops Given £5.5m Of Seized Assets
More than £5m of assets seized from criminals is to be handed to police across England and Wales, the Home Office has announced. Half of the a total of £31.8m in criminal assets, confiscated between October and December last year, will be shared ...
08.04.09 Liverpool drug gang hit with £140,000 Proceeds of Crime action by Serious and Organised Crime Agency
A LIVERPOOL gang behind a massive Scottish drugs farm was stripped of thousands of pounds. John Fitzgibbon, 60, and Michael Fairhurst, 44, ran the sophisticated cannabis operation for more than two years. The Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) raided ...
31.03.09 SOCA Issues Warning To Drug Traffickers
The Serious Organised Crime Agency is warning drug traffickers they will face a long time behind bars if they attempt to import drugs into the United Kingdom. Tobagonians Owen Alfred and Oswin Moore were jailed for 18 and 15 years respectively in London today for their roles in a cocaine trafficking ...
30.03.09 Wirral drug baron’s wife’s Champagne lifestyle comes to end
SHE enjoyed a life of the most vulgar excess, once joining her husband for a £600 chauffeur ride to Claridges for a £345 meal at Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant. But yesterday the glamorous wife of a Liverpool drugs baron was ...
31/01/2009 Human trafficker and Benefit Fraudster to payback £42K
The first ever case of human trafficking in Cheshire ended on 23 January 2009, with the sentencing of Cai Hong Yang, 44, at Warrington Crown Court. Yang received 16 months for the police charges against her, and an additional four months for charges of benefit fraud, brought against her by the ...
23/12/2008 Confiscation order for Plymouth man
At Plymouth Crown Court on 28 November 2008, the Plymouth Asset Recovery Unit secured a confiscation order in the sum of £37,085.00 against a local unemployed man. The man had previously pleaded guilty to disguising criminal property namely cash from the proceeds of trading in illegally imported tobacco. He also pleaded ...
