A drug dealer has been ordered to pay back just 1% of the money he made having found to have benefited from crime by £250,000.
Salman Ali, 25, from Newport, was part of a UK-wide distribution network of Class A drugs in a £16m heroin conspiracy headed by Sean Doolan.
The conspiracy saw drugs sold and transported drugs across Wales including Newport, Cardiff, and Newtown.
Based in Liverpool, Doolan and his right-hand man Francis Westhead, 36, were responsible for the commercial supply of the Class A drug on an "industrial scale".
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A police operation, called Jackdaw Two, was responsible for cracking down on the enterprise, which was estimated to have traded more than £16.8m worth of drugs – or more than 1.1m street deals – over a nine-month period from April to December 2018.
The total amount of heroin was believed to be in the region of 150kg with 30% purity or a compressed 45kg with 100% purity.
The conspiracy was made up of organised crime gangs across the UK which collaborated in a distribution network. The core base was in Liverpool which controlled a significant part of the drugs trade in Newport and Plymouth as well as Cardiff, Newtown, Gloucester, and Hartlepool to a lesser extent.
In order to avoid detection from the authorities conspiracy members used military-style encrypted mobile phones provided by Doolan.
The net began to close on Doolan after a number of his couriers were stopped by police and found with large quantities of heroin which could be traced back to the defendant.
He was arrested on November 20, 2018, at John Lennon Airport in Liverpool while attempting to board a one-way flight to Larnaca in Cyprus with his wife and four children. Prosecutor Andrew Jones said: "He knew that the game was over."
Doolan, of Greenfield Road, Allerton, Liverpool, was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment at Newport Crown Court in 2019.
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At the same hearing Westhead, of Winterlea Drive, Halewood, Liverpool, was jailed for 11 years and four months.
Ali, of Commercial Road, was among those who received deliveries of heroin as part of the conspiracy and was sentenced to nine years and seven months imprisonment.
A Proceeds of Crime Act hearing at Newport Crown Court on Friday heard that Ali had benefited through drug dealing to the tune of £256,222. But the court was told the defendant was only able to pay back £2,530.
Judge Richard Williams made a confiscation order for Ali to pay £2,530 to be paid within three months or serve two months imprisonment in default.
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