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Confiscation order still stands
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• A haulage boss jailed for smuggling £21m of cannabis into the UK, has failed to overturn a confiscation order that required him to hand over £106,000 of his ill-gotten gains.
Merseyside-based Ian Broadley was jailed for 10 years In September 2000 for Illegally importing the class B drug. He was also ordered to return more than £100,000—with a threat of a further three years In jail If he failed to pay up. Mr Justice Keene dismissed arguments that the crown court judge did not have enough evidence to make the confiscation order.
Broadley set-up a haulage company called Angle-Corporate Enterprises in 1996 and made regular journeys to Gel'many to collect and deliver goods, the Court of Appeal heard.
However, In June 1999, a truck using
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one of the company's trailers was stopped by Customs officers and drums containing 795kg of cannabis and cannabis resin were discovered. In addition, Anglo-Corporate was not able to explain all the money put Into bank accounts by Broadley.
His lawyers argued that eight other trips to Germany were dry-runs, and not drug runs where Broadley would have benefited to the tune of £106,000.
But this was dismissed by Keene, who added: "The judge dean with this matter with particular care. We can see no reason for interfering with his overall assessment."