DutchNews, July 21,
2016
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| Photo: Despositphotos.com |
A man
convicted eight years ago of money laundering, forgery and membership of a
criminal organisation has been ordered to pay €58.5m to the Dutch state, the
Volkskrant reported on Thursday.
Rotterdam judges on Thursday ordered the
payback under Dutch legislation which aims to strip criminals of their
ill-gotten gains. The public prosecution department had called for a €89m levy.
The man, named as Bhagwandath P, was jailed for 10 years in 2005 for importing
cocaine into the Netherlands but was found not guilty of drug smuggling on
appeal.
According to the public prosecution department, P deposited €89m into
bank accounts owned by a company named Drikko. There is no evidence that the
money was earned legitimately and it should, therefore, be forfeited, the
department said.
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