A MAN received a further jail sentence for failing to repay a court confiscation order.
Juga Singh faces the stark warning he will have to pay the amount, with added interest, on his release from prison. The Bradford man was sentenced at Leeds Magistrates’ Court following the 2005 launch of Operation Churchill by North East Regional Asset Recovery Team. It was an international money laundering investigation stemming from the compromising of high value bank accounts in the UK.
Churchill culminated in a number of trials and the convictions of 12 people for conspiracy to defraud and money laundering offences.
The 12 were imprisoned for a total of 35 years. Subsequent to those convictions, confiscation hearings were held and over a million pounds worth of confiscation orders were made.
Singh received five years imprisonment. He was subsequently issued with a confiscation order in the sum of £166,418.50 which he failed to pay. He was taken back to court and sentenced to 18 months in default of payment.
