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£90,000 taken from drug dealer

14:25, Jan 7 2013

 

More than £90,000 has been confiscated from a convicted drug dealer, prosecutors said.

Lindsay Harkins, 45, originally from Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute, has had to surrender £92,268 as the result of a confiscation order at the High Court in Edinburgh.

Harkins was convicted of supplying cocaine which was imported from Spain into the UK via Prestwick, Glasgow and Newcastle airports, and sold to various locations throughout the Glasgow area and Dumfries and Galloway.

He was also found guilty of dealing amphetamine in September 2011 and sentenced to more than nine years in prison.

Lindsey Miller, head of the serious and organised crime division (SOCD), said: "Dealing in drugs is classed as a 'lifestyle offence', which allows us to investigate Harkins' income over the six years leading up to his arrest.

"Forensic accountants calculated that £300,000 in that period could not be legitimately accounted for and therefore constituted his 'criminal benefit'.

"Today's confiscation order for £92,268 represents the amount which is available to us at this time.

"If further assets belonging to Harkins come to light in the future, the Crown can ask the court to recalculate the confiscation order up to the amount of the benefit recorded."

Since 2003, the use of the Proceeds of Crime Act in Scotland has allowed more than £60 million to be recovered from criminals.

Money recovered under the Proceeds of Crime Act is invested by ministers in a variety of activities for children and young people through the CashBack for Communities programme.

 

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