Overview

• Thomas Kavanagh has three months to pay £1,123,096.84 under a Proceeds of Crime Act order or face an additional 12 years behind bars and forfeiture of his share in a fortified Tamworth mansion.
• Kavanagh was jailed for 21 years in March 2022 after admitting to orchestrating drug imports worth around £30 million, firearms trafficking and money laundering for the Kinahan cartel.
• NCA investigators estimated his criminal profits at £12.2 million but identified only £1.12 million in recoverable assets, including property in the UK and Spain plus luxury designer goods.
• Gary Vickery must repay £109,312.90 within three months or serve another two years after his conviction for high-level drug smuggling.
• The National Crime Agency has increasingly used POCA orders to seize assets and extend prison terms as part of a crackdown on the Kinahan organised crime network in the UK.