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Antolik’s parents-in-law became innocently entangled in police applications to
sell up their Auckland home after Antolik was convicted of importing ecstasy. In a negotiated proceeds-of-crime settlement,
they surrendered part of $161,000 received from their son-in-law.
Antolik was sentenced
to five years nine months jail in June 2016 following conviction for
importation of 4.9 kilograms of MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy, having a
street value of some $375,000. The High
Court was told Antolik sold a property he owned on Auckland’s North Shore two
months before sentence on the importation charge. After clearing a mortgage, Antolik was left
with some $398,000 in hand. Of this:
$237,000 was paid into the bank account of a company he controlled; $161,000 to
his parents-in-law as repayment of a loan they made to him, Antolik said. Police applied under the Criminal Proceeds
(Recovery) Act to seize the net sale proceeds.
In a court approved
settlement, a total of $190,000 was seized: $61,000 of the money received by
Antolik’s parents-in-law and $129,000 remaining from the sale of his North
Shore property.
Commissioner
of Police v. Antolik – High Court (5.10.17)
17.129