Notorious crime boss given three weeks to pay £400,000 or spend another seven years behind bars
A CRIME boss has three weeks to come up with £400,000 or face another seven years in jail.
Tommy Adams, serving time for money laundering, was ordered to repay £1.2million.
Crime boss Tommy Adams has been told to pay up an extra £400,000 or face seven more years in prison[/caption]He stumped up £936,677.53 after selling his home but still owes £415,190.76, including interest, towards a proceeds of crime confiscation order imposed in 2020.
Crown Prosecution Service officials said the case against Adams, 63, of Bow, East London, is due to be heard again by City of London magistrates on May 27.
A spokesman added: “If insufficient progress is made to satisfy the balance by this date, consideration will be given to seeking activation of the default term of imprisonment.”
Adams, a member of the notorious Clerkenwell Crime Syndicate was jailed for seven years in 2017.
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The Adams family are thought to have made £200million through murder, extortion, robbery and drugs.
Tommy’s brother Patrick, 66, is serving nine years for a shooting.
Their older brother Terry, 67, had to repay £750,000 after his release halfway through a seven-year sentence for money-laundering imposed in 2007.