THOUSANDS of pounds of drug cash have been seized by police in North Yorkshire.
Northallerton Magistrates’ Court has signed off a Forfeiture Order amounting to £14,000 which was confiscated under the Proceeds of Crime Act last year.
The cash was seized when police stopped and searched a blue Audi S3 car, occupied by four men from West Yorkshire, on the A19 at Dishforth, in the early hours of Thursday December 16.
Financial Investigators interviewed the men and launched an investigation and were able to prove the cash was linked to drug dealing.
No charges were brought against the men but police successfully applied to keep the cash.
The force’s Financial Investigation Unit recovered £1,339,479 of illegal earnings in the last year.
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