Pay back your criminal assets, drug dealer told

A DRUG dealer serving a ten year sentence has been ordered to pay back more than £170,000 of his ill-gotten gains.
By The Newsroom
Published 26th Feb 2014, 18:34 BST

David Alan Romani, 52, of Dean Brow Farm in Denholme, Bradford, was ordered to pay the money in the next six months or face another two-and-a-half years in prison during a confiscation hearing at Leeds Crown Court. He was convicted for his part in an operation to supply heroin and cocaine.

West Yorkshire Police commissioner Mark Burns-Williamson said: “Cases like these highlight the considerable amounts we can potentially recover from criminal enterprises and which could be used to the benefit of local people and police.”

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Mr Burns-Williamson says he has received promises from Police Minister Damian Green that the Government will try and bring in new laws in the next parliament to tighten loopholes in the Proceeds of Crime Act.

He is also campaigning for local police forces to keep a higher proportion of money seized from criminals under the act.