Gangsters told to hand over £170,000 from drug deals

Two gangsters are facing demands to pay £170,000 police say they earned from drug dealing on a south London estate.
Lipton Russel, 35, and Nicholas Canns, 31, were convicted of dealing class-A drugs and jailed for five years.
Today the pair, said to be senior members of the Shoot Instant Gang, were due to appear at a [...]

Seizing Dons’ Assets: Theory Vs Practice

THE GLEANER’S editorial of June 10, which concurred with Professor Trevor Munroe’s urgings on moving against the assets of dons, is laudable. With the greatest of respect to both Prof and The Gleaner, however, though well-meaning and worthy of debate, their sentiments demonstrate the difference between theoretical constructs, and the ‘nuts-and-bolts’ realities faced by persons [...]

Gangsters’ money helps teens

Hundreds of young people on the cusp of serious offending are to be offered intensive support and outward-bound courses in a new Scottish Government pilot funded with cash seized from gangsters.
The £1.6 million Junction project to be launched today means that children aged between 14 and 17 in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee at risk of [...]

Prosecutors net £6.5m crime cash

A Moscow-based businessman has had £6.5m seized by Scottish prosecutors in the country’s largest ever recovery under Proceeds of Crime legislation.
Anatoly Kazachkov, 64, was connected to a suspicious bank transfer of $10m from an account in Hungary to a Scottish bank in 2004.
The cash was seized after a probe by the Scottish Crime and Drug [...]

Bermuda Cops set out to seize gangsters’ ill-gotten gains

Criminals who flaunt their wealth with expensive jewellery and flash cars have been warned – “we’re coming after your cash”.
Police are pursuing gang members from every possible angle and are warning dealers and traffickers they face losing everything they own if they are convicted of trading in drugs.
Assistant Commissioner Paul Wright said investigators are already [...]