MAN WHO MADE £87K SELLING MONKEY DUST TOLD TO REPAY JUST £2K
Judgement after 50-year-old’s Proceeds of Crime hearing
MONKEY dust importer Michael Mcgraw has been ordered to repay just £2,145 of the £87,000 he made from selling the drug.
The 50-year-old, right, was involved in the importation and supply of monkey dust between June 1, 2018 and April 17, 2019 and was jailed for 27 months at Stoke-on
Trent Crown Court in August 2019.
But he re-appeared at the same court on Wednesday for a Proceeds of Crime hearing and Judge David Fletcher ruled
Mcgraw benefited from his criminality by £87,000 and made a confiscation order for the available amount of £2,145.
The cash has to be paid within three months or he will face 28 days in jail.
And the judge warned Mcgraw that if he comes into any i money at any stage in the future he can ex expect the authorities to collect the balance of £8 £84,855.
J Judge Fletcher sa said: “The benefit wa was £87,000 and the av available amount is £2,145. I make a co confiscation order for £2,145 which is to be paid within three months. Failure to make payment in that amount results in a prison sentence in default of 28 days.
“If at any stage in the future it is discovered you have come into any money you can expect the balance to be paid.”
Mcgraw, of Rochester Road, Longton, was jailed last August after he pleaded guilty to the ‘fraudulent evasion of a prohibition by importing a class B drug’ between June 1, 2018 and April 17, 2019, supplying a class B drug and acquiring criminal property between July 1, 2017 and December 21, 2018.
The court heard he bought the class B drug on the internet and tried to get it into the UK through Coventry Airport.
But police intercepted some packages and more monkey dust was seized when they searched the defendant’s home.