Payments under the Proceeds of Crime Act
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May 2010
Drug trafficker from Duston paid back £850 in May total paid to date £2000
Drug trafficker from East Northants paid back £1,212.97 in May total paid to date £45,000
Drug trafficker from Daventry paid back £ 3,592.98 in May
Drug trafficker from Northampton paid back £810 in May
Drug trafficker from East Northants paid back £1,212.97 in May total paid to date £45,000
Drug trafficker from Daventry paid back £ 3,592.98 in May
Drug trafficker from Northampton paid back £810 in May
April 2010
Money Launderer from East Northants paid back £39421.41 in April total paid to date £154,654.45 assets identified include house, spa and Rolex.
Drug Trafficker from East Northants paid back £16,950.02 in April, total paid to date £45,000.00
Drug Trafficker from Daventry paid back £ 8,605.02 in April
Thief from Wellingborough paid back £ 67,499.66 in April
March 2010
Fraudster from Kingsthorpe and Boughton Green paid back £200
Drug Trafficker from Duston paid back £500 in March total paid to date £ 1,150.00
Fraudster from Daventry Rural North paid back £ 354.48 in March, total paid to date £297,084.21 assets identified include house, pension and antiques
Drug Trafficker from Duston paid back £28,780.19 in March, total paid to date £118,584.15
Background
Criminals who make a profit from their crimes not only face the penalty of imprisonment, community service or a fine they also risk being forced to payback the profits they have made.
Criminals who make a profit from their crimes not only face the penalty of imprisonment, community service or a fine they also risk being forced to payback the profits they have made.
The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 allows the Police, Crown Prosecution Service and the Courts to identify and order the repayment of the proceeds of crime.
It is not just cash, if crime has paid for a house, a car, a plasma screen TV or a pension plan then the courts order that the value of these assets must also be repaid. This means that criminals no longer come out of prison to the lifestyle they had previously. It also means that they are less likely to be seen as role models within their communities.
Last year in Northamptonshire Criminals were forced to pay back £1.5 million pounds which were identified by the courts as being the profits of criminal activity.
Some of this money gets paid to victims in compensation payments, some gets put back into funding front line staff for the police and Crown Prosecution Service and some goes back into community projects.