Warrant for ex-skip firm boss in £874k waste scam
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For more information, please visit the Môn Actif Facebook page. A FORMER skip company boss who made £874,000 from running an illegal waste scam was issued with a warrant after he failed to turn up in court last Wednesday.
Last year Victor Andrew Williams, 53, pleaded guilty to running the operation at his home at Tŷ Croes, Tŷ Newydd, Llannerchymedd, Anglesey from February 1 2009 to March 23 2013.
During that hearing Christopher Stables, prosecuting, told Caernarfon Crown Court that Williams had made £354,834 “clear tax-free” profit by pocketing money paid to him for hiring skips.
The rest of the sum - £519,166 - was included in £874,000 as money he did not spend by avoiding taking waste to landfill. On top of that, because Williams had not declared his profits, he also claimed £96,000 tax and child credit.
Williams’ assets were around £487,000 – made up of the family home, cash, investments and vehicles – and a confiscation order was made to recover £400,000.
In September last year Williams was sentenced to four months in prison, suspended for 12 months and a confiscation order was made to claw back the money.
In July this year, at Caernarfon Magistrates’ Court he was given more time to sell his home to recover the £400,000. He should have appeared again yesterday before magistrates but the court heard Williams had been taken to Ysbyty Gwynedd overnight but there was no adequate explanation of his condition.
Dafydd Roberts, prosecuting on behalf of Natural Resources Wales, said some of Williams’ bank accounts had been seized - a total of around £42,000 - and he had been given six months to repay the rest of the money - £358,000.
Mr Roberts said this was the fourth enforcement hearing, the July one being the last and “each time something happens”.
He said: “Mr Williams is reminded that if he doesn’t sell his house and his land by the next auction, he will be sentenced to prison.”
Mr Roberts added that he was “not insensitive” to Williams’ plight.
However, magistrates chairman Peter Campbell said “sufficient time had passed” and a warrant was issued for him to appear in court with an explanation from doctors of his absence.