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Jailed heroin trafficker to hand over his drugs profits
The head of an international drugs trafficking group who was sentenced to 24 years in prison has been ordered to hand over more than £275,000 of his criminal profits.
His Honour Judge Phipps, in Liverpool Crown Court, ruled that assets belonging to 33 year old Mohammed Aadel Anwar from Illford in Essex were the profits of his illegal activities and granted SOCA a Confiscation Order for £275,863
If Anwar fails to meet the Order, he will face a further three years in prison and the assets to be confiscated could include:
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Family home in Wanstead Park Road Ilford
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Family business Biggz diner in South West London
Mohammed Aadel Anwar, also known as ‘Bigs’, was the organiser of a London based crime group who conspired with another criminal group in Merseyside which imported Class A and B drugs.
The trial heard in 2010 how the Merseyside criminal network imported drugs under the guise of legitimate courier companies from the Netherlands. Over the space of five months, the group imported cocaine, heroin and cannabis hidden in blue steel drums of water based primer. The primer was removed from the drums and replaced with the drugs and shipped by courier to a fake business address in Neston, Merseyside.
The two criminal groups were unaware that SOCA was watching their every move. When the handover of the drugs was made in a hospital car park in October 2009 SOCA arrested eight members of the groups and seized 44kgs of heroin. Further searches recovered one tonne of cannabis and 22kgs of amphetamine sulphate. Anwar, on hearing about the arrests, fled to Pakistan and Morrocco.
Anwar was subsequently arrested in July 2010 trying to re enter the UK and in March 2011 he was sentenced to 24 years for conspiracy to supply Class A drugs. The Judge also granted a Travel Restriction Order against Anwar preventing him from travelling outside the UK for four years after his release from prison. A Financial Reporting Order was also granted whereby he must regularly report his finances for the next 15 years.
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Mohammed Aadel Anwar DOB 11/12/1978, Wanstead Park Road, Ilford, Essex was sentenced to 24 years at Liverpool Crown Court on 4 March 2011 for conspiracy to supply Class A drugs.
