7 Dec 2017
HKSAR v. MUSAH HAKEEM TAHIRU alias TAHIRU MUSA HAKEM
- Citation
- HKSAR v. MUSAH HAKEEM TAHIRU alias TAHIRU MUSA HAKEM
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCCC464/2015
There is no jurisdictional bar to a DTROP s3 confiscation application merely because the defendant was acquitted of a separate dealing-in-proceeds offence; the DTROP inquiry is civil in standard and distinct from criminal verdicts. On the balance of probabilities the defendant benefited from drug trafficking and the seized cash (US$736,100, HK$24,005.10, EUR€1,170) represents proceeds, and the court ordered recovery of HK$5,765,749.40. The defendant was sentenced to 14 years 9 months imprisonment for trafficking with specified enhancements.