Cash totalling $1.1 million seized by police from a Storage King unit in Auckland was forfeited to government as proceeds of crime after Brian Paul Cutler pleaded guilty to charges of importing methamphetamine and possession for supply.
A joint Customs and Police investigation tracked deliveries of imported methamphetamine to an address in Southgate Place, Henderson, and on to a nearby Storage King unit. Cutler was arrested after quantities of the drug and cash totalling $1.116 million were found at the unit. Police moved to have court approved forfeiture under the Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) Act as soon as Cutler pleaded guilty. The High Court was told Cutler has been in New Zealand since September 2017, has no known other sources of income and has never declared any income for tax.
Commissioner of Police v. Cutler – High Court (20.05.19)
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