Terry Adams is due to pay £46,258 in court expenses but his lawyer Stephen Gilchrist said his client has "no money".
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A judge has ordered Terry Adams, the former boss of the Clerkenwell Syndicate to provide details of his finances, after he claimed he was penniless and unable to pay court expenses.
Adams is due to pay £46,258 in court expenses but his lawyer Stephen Gilchrist said his client has “no money”.
Judge Gary Lucie said Mr Adams must furnish the court with details of his finances, including bank statements, by 10 December .
Mr. Adams was excused from Court on Wednesday, but the judge ordered that Adams attends the full means inquiry on 12 December 2018 at Hendon Magistrates’ Court.
A letter, read in court from the Crown Prosecution Service warned Mr Adams’ “plea of poverty” should be “treated with caution”.
Judge Lucie questioned Mr Adams’ ability to afford an attorney if he was “broke and penniless”.
Mr. Gilchrist responded that his fees were being covered by a “family member”.
Adams was jailed for seven years for money laundering in 2007 and was told to pay £750,000 in a confiscation order to avoid further time in prison.
He launched a High Court bid after paying back a little over half of the sum, claiming he felt “like a ponce” living off his actress wife Ruth.
The CPS argued there was a strong case Adams had “substantial undisclosed assets”.
The court heard evidence he was using his family and associates to pay for a luxury lifestyle including opera visits, meals at top restaurants and spa memberships.
But after being threatened with being sent back to jail an extended family member was said to have supplied the money to pay back the remainder of the confiscation order.
The Adams Family gang, also dubbed the A-team, were once described by police as “worse than the Krays” while operating out of Islington, north London.
Adams, of Bloomsbury, central London, did not attend Wednesday’s hearing.
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A judge has ordered Terry Adams, the former boss of the Clerkenwell Syndicate to provide details of his finances, after he claimed he was penniless and unable to pay court expenses.
Adams is due to pay £46,258 in court expenses but his lawyer Stephen Gilchrist said his client has “no money”.
Judge Gary Lucie said Mr Adams must furnish the court with details of his finances, including bank statements, by 10 December .
Mr. Adams was excused from Court on Wednesday, but the judge ordered that Adams attends the full means inquiry on 12 December 2018 at Hendon Magistrates’ Court.
A letter, read in court from the Crown Prosecution Service warned Mr Adams’ “plea of poverty” should be “treated with caution”.
Judge Lucie questioned Mr Adams’ ability to afford an attorney if he was “broke and penniless”.
Mr. Gilchrist responded that his fees were being covered by a “family member”.
Adams was jailed for seven years for money laundering in 2007 and was told to pay £750,000 in a confiscation order to avoid further time in prison.
He launched a High Court bid after paying back a little over half of the sum, claiming he felt “like a ponce” living off his actress wife Ruth.
The CPS argued there was a strong case Adams had “substantial undisclosed assets”.
The court heard evidence he was using his family and associates to pay for a luxury lifestyle including opera visits, meals at top restaurants and spa memberships.
But after being threatened with being sent back to jail an extended family member was said to have supplied the money to pay back the remainder of the confiscation order.
The Adams Family gang, also dubbed the A-team, were once described by police as “worse than the Krays” while operating out of Islington, north London.
Adams, of Bloomsbury, central London, did not attend Wednesday’s hearing.
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