Cannabis worker ordered to pay back £1 over £500,000 drug farms

Andi Kokaj, 23, performed a ‘minor position’ within the prison enterprise (Image: North Yorkshire Police)

An Albanian gangster concerned in a £500,000 hashish racket has been ordered to pay again simply £1.

Andi Kokaj, 23, was a part of a London-based gang that conspired with former visitor home proprietor Yoko Banks, 74, to arrange three hashish factories.

Banks, who was beforehand jailed for 3 and a half years, rented out three properties in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, to the gang in trade for round £12,000 a month.

A court docket heard the hashish farms had potential yields of as much as £456,000.

Kokaj was jailed for 3 years in August final yr for caring within the manufacturing of the Class B drug.

However final week, choose Tom Bayliss advised a court docket Kokaj was paid simply £80 a day for his ‘minor’ position within the prison enterprise, and made a monetary acquire of £1,120.

Due to this, the choose ordered Kokaj to solely pay £1.

Yoko Banks rented out three properties to the hashish gang (Image: North Yorkshire Police)

Kokaj didn’t attend the confiscation listening to, which heard he was ‘in all probability nowhere to be discovered’.

When he was sentenced final yr, Kokaj was advised he would solely should serve half of his three-year sentence behind bars, which means he might have been launched.

Visar Sellaj, 33, the gang’s ringleader, made £438,000 from the hashish enterprise and was ordered to pay £76,000 to the general public.

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