Soccer Aid is back with a fresh line-up of celebrities and former footballers for its twelfth edition.
23.05.2023 - 21:05 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A trucking boss who led a double life as drugs baron has been ordered to pay back £630,000. Thomas Maher, aged 42, was sentenced to 14 years and eight months in prison in December 2020 for moving drugs and dirty cash across Europe.
Before his activities were exposed he lived in a modest three bedroom detached house. But parked on the driveway at various times were a Range Rover, a Land Rover, a sleek, black Mercedes GLS worth £150,000, a BMW and a £70,000 imported Corvette.
Inside the home, on a modern estate in a suburb, were pieces of art - including a map of the world made from bullets. He also owned around £600,000 worth of watches and splashed out on holidays, spending £70,000 on breaks in around three years.
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He would fly to Dubai, Mexico and New York - business class or first class. He hired a private helicopter in New York.
Evidence obtained by the National Crime Agency as part of Operation Venetic – the UK law enforcement response to the takedown of encrypted global communications service EncroChat – showed that he operated a transportation network spanning Europe, moving drugs into the UK and Ireland and the profits in the other direction.
In one exchange of messages with a criminal associate he bragged that he had been involved in organised crime for more than 20 years. Yesterday (22 May) a judge at Liverpool Crown Court made a confiscation order for £629,159.15, including his house in Warrington, cars, lorries, jewellery, a number of high value watches, artwork and gold ingots bought in Dubai. He has three months to pay or faces an extra six years in jail.
From the sofa of his home on Wiltshire Close in Woolston, Warrington, Maher was
Soccer Aid is back with a fresh line-up of celebrities and former footballers for its twelfth edition.
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