Drugs baron facing cash seizure over Wolverhampton to Aberdeen racket
Prosecutors will seek to recover assets from a drugs baron who led an operation taking huge amounts of heroin and cocaine from Wolverhampton to Aberdeen.
A hearing was held at Manchester Crown Court yesterday concerning Karl Wilson, who owned properties in Willenhall and rented a string of flats in Aberdeen.
Having launched the racket in 2002, he controlled it for seven years before fleeing to Jamaica as police closed in. He was put behind bars for 16 years in January last year.
A Proceeds of Crime hearing will take place at the same court on July 1.
Jamaican-born Wilson, aged 59, started the operation with Melanie Clarke from Vicarage Road, Tettenhall in 2002 and ran it until police swooped in February 2009, two months after he fled to the Caribbean.
The heroin and cocaine were smuggled from Wolverhampton to Scotland in the spare tyre of hire cars.
