Jobless Anthony Okopie posed with cash, wore a Rolex and even bought a Mercedes for his girlfriend using profits from drug dealing
A heroin dealer who blew almost a quarter of a million pounds on designer clothes and luxury cars has been ordered to pay back just £6,630 of his drug profits.
Jobless Anthony Okopie, 30, posed with bundles of cash, wore a Rolex and splashed out at Harrods after sending his dealers on National Express coaches to sell cocaine and heroin to addicts in Plymouth.
Okopie, from Peckham, south east London, also bought a Mercedes for girlfriend Selina Laurrane, who is being pursued through the courts.
Cash was found stuffed in designer trainers when police raided his home and discovered pictures of money and cars on his phone.
They confiscated 15 pairs of expensive trainers, Louis Vuitton clothes and leather belts.
Despite admitting handling £227,000 in criminal property, Okopie has been ordered to repay less than three per cent of his net profits.
Plymouth Crown Court heard in January how he sent dealers to the port city twice a week, with prosecutors estimating he supplied up to five kg of heroin and cocaine with a purity between 87 and 96 per cent.
The dealer sent his underlings down to Plymouth on National Express coaches where they would sell cocaine and heroin to addicts
Posing with his Rolex, Okopie enjoyed spending drug profits in Harrods and buying designer clothes and luxury cars
In June when he pleaded guilty to plotting to supply heroin and cocaine and was jailed for 12 years and three months.
Police traced some 27,000 texts he sent to drug users over 11 months in 2015.
Police confiscated 15 pairs of trainers after raiding the heroin dealer’s home, where they also found cash stashed in shoes
He would send a bulk message to about 20 users in a post code area offering heroin and cocaine and telling them when his dealer would arrive.
He was one of six young men from London and the South East jailed for a total of more than 25 years.
His lieutenants Isaac Inwerobi and Anthony Ubogagu, also behind bars, have already been ordered to pay nominal amounts under the Proceeds of Crime Act.