Almost £1,000 has been confiscated from a man who was jailed for his role in a gang which supplied heroin valued at £4 million.
Amad Yousaf, 21, of Leeds Road, Thornbury, Bradford, was jailed for four years after a police raid resulted in 43 kilos of heroin being recovered from a house.
Recorder Robert Hill QC sitting at Bradford Crown Court today ordered that Yousaf pay £980 which he said were his realisable assets from his role in the drugs conspiracy.
In June last year ringleader Zafar Iqbal, 48, was sentenced to 11 years in jail after a surveillance operation resulted in the heroin being found at his home in Halifax Road, Odsal, in May 2005.
His student son, Arfan, 25, of Upper Rushton Toad, Thornbury, and 26-year-old Sheraz Matloob, of Birmingham, were each jailed for four years for their part in the drugs conspiracy which involved the class A drug being hidden inside flattened cardboard boxes.
A fifth gang member taxi driver Mohammed Sajjad, 32, of Birmingham, was jailed for six years after being found guilty by a jury.
Yesterday it was agreed that Matloob's benefit from general criminal conduct amounted to just over £34,000 and the judge made a confiscation order against him of £8,297.57 which he must pay within three months. Arfan Iqbal was said to have benefited to the tune of £1,849.35 and he will have to pay up £349.35.
The confiscation proceedings Mohammed Sajjad were adjourned until later in the year.
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