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Showing 21 - 29 of 29 results for crime type "Proceeds of crime" & area "CPS"
A detectorist who stole an estimated £3m worth of Viking treasure has been sentenced to a further five years and three months in prison after failing to pay back over £600,000.Layton Davies, formerly of Pontypridd, was jailed in 2019 for concealing the finding of the treasure and theft after he…
Today (11 July 2024) at Margate Magistrates’ Court, Gheorghe Nica, 46, was ordered to serve a further eleven and half months imprisonment after failing to payback £65,157.65 which he was ordered to pay in a proceeds of crime confiscation hearing. All of the Confiscation Order monies recovered from…
A British man convicted of selling a deadly substance that was falsely marketed as a ‘weight loss’ drug has been forced to hand over £23,000 that he made from his crime. The amount that Jack Finney, 28, was forced to pay back included a quantity of Monero cryptocurrency that was sold off by…
A landlady who was jailed for keeping a vulnerable woman in domestic servitude has had to sell a property to pay the victim back almost £200,000. Farzana Kausar, formerly of Worthing, was jailed for six years and eight months on 21 December 2022 at Lewes Crown Court after she was found guilty…
Today at Chelmsford Crown Court, a Confiscation Order of £22,305 was given to Stephen Bear, to retrieve the ill-gotten gains he accumulated from publishing explicit content to a subscription site without the consent of those involved. The judge has ordered that the victim, Georgia Harrison, be…
More than 200 people who were conned into buying useless investments have received payouts from the money recovered from the fraudster.The 222 victims of Paul Seakens, 62, have been given a share of the £1,037,948 that prosecutors from the Crown Prosecution Service helped recover after he was…
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One of the five Oxbridge-educated fraudsters who lured wealthy individuals to invest in fake “green” projects is sentenced to an additional term of imprisonment for non-payment of his £2.7m Confiscation Order.
Today at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, Rodney Whiston-Dew was ordered to serve a…
Press ReleaseProceeds of crimeFraud and economic crimeCPS
The Crown Prosecution Service is today launching a united team to tackle the changing nature of serious and organised crime.
The new Serious Economic, Organised Crime and International Directorate (SEOCID) brings together specialists in economic crime, organised crime, proceeds of crime and…
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Her Majesty's Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI) has today (22 July) issued a report following their Inspection of the operation of CPS and Serious Fraud Office (SFO) Proceeds of Crime Divisions.
The CPS has been praised by HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI) for its…
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To ensure greater openness in the reporting of criminal proceedings, the CPS, the police and media representatives developed a joint protocol for working together. We are currently in the process of updating the protocol.
