A drug gang boss who earned £600,000 as he pumped "wholesale quantities" of Class A drugs into the Valleys has been ordered to repay just £16,000.
Yousef Woolcock, 37, was jailed for 17 years and six months at Cardiff Crown Court last December for his role in leading a sophisticated drug gang which supplied Class A drugs to dealers in Rhondda Cynon Taf and Merthyr Tydfil from his home in Pendine Close in Barry.
Between August 2018 and July 2019 Woolcock sold around 18kg of heroin and crack by contacting dealers and customers through a mobile phone known as the "Barry line".
He was also found with three packages of heroin worth between £2,580 and £5,160 hidden in his anus while he was a serving prisoner at HMP Cardiff in November 2018. He was later convicted of two counts of conspiring to supply Class A drugs and possessing heroin with intent to supply.
A Proceeds of Crime Act hearing at Cardiff Crown Court on Thursday was told Woolcock had benefited to the tune of £600,000 as a result of the drug enterprise.
But prosecutor Andrew Davies said the defendant only had £16,630 available to his name – funds which were already in the possession of the police in the form of cash and a seized vehicle.
Judge Richard Twomlow made a confiscation order of £16,630 in respect of Woolcock and said the defendant would be handed a nine-month jail term if there was a default in payment.
