[ jun 2005 ]
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A DRUG dealing Mr Big has been ordered to hand over £2.4million of crime cash -- the largest amount ever confiscated from a criminal in Lancashire. And as Ayub Khansia, 47, was ordered to hand over the money, police revealed how addicts committed thousands of burglaries and muggings to pay for the heroin he supplied. Four other members of Khansia's family have also been told to pay back a total of just over £500,000 after they laundered his drugs profits by buying properties in their names.
The confiscations are the largest in Lancashire's history, and according to a spokesman for the national Asset Recovery Agency, "one of the largest in the North West". Part of the money Judge Stuart Baker order to be handed over will come from bank accounts which were frozen when the investigations begun, but most will come from the sale of 18 properties the family bought to launder the drugs cash.