DRUGS baron Curtis Warren, who was jailed for a failed plot to flood Jersey with £1 million of cannabis, is to face some of the toughest restrictions ever placed on a criminal when he is released next month.
The 59-year-old – known as ‘Britain’s Pablo Escobar’ – has been placed on a watchlist by the National Crime Agency.
Warren, who made such a fortune through criminal activity that he was once featured on the Sunday Times Rich List, will be subject to various orders restricting his movement and activities when he is released from the maximum security HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire.
The orders include restrictions on:
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Travel outside England and Wales
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Access to communication devices and the internet
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His ability to borrow money, make transfers, hold trusts or shares, and use foreign or virtual currency
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Holding assets or property valued at more than £1,000
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And being involved in commercial imports and exports.
And according to an article in The Sunday Times this weekend, Warren must give a day’s notice to sit in a friend’s car and will be banned from using WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. He will also have to provide an NCA handler with seven days’ notice if he wants to travel to Scotland.
Warren was first jailed by the Royal Court in 2009 following a failed attempt to execute what at the time would have been Jersey’s biggest ever drugs importation.
In 2013 he was ordered to spend a further ten years behind bars after refusing to pay a £198 million confiscation order.
Failure to comply with any of the new measures could put him back in jail for another five years.
Liverpool-born Warren will not be under supervision when he is released but will instead be monitored by the NCA’s lifetime management team.
