Drug dealer ordered to pay back more than £100,000
Police found found mobile phones and £1,785 in cash at Kastriot Ponari's home
Last updated 17th Dec 2025
A drug dealer who was caught with a stash of drugs in his Cambridge home has been ordered to pay back his ill-gotten gains.
Kastriot Ponari, 46, was leaving his former home, in Queen Edith’s Way, in August 2022, when officers arrived to search the premises.
Inside they found mobile phones, £1,785 in cash and the garage was being used as a drugs preparation area.
There was also cannabis worth between £3,000 and £5,000, packages of cocaine worth about £15,000, 169 MDMA tablets worth £1,400 and three quarters of a kilogram of cocaine worth between £19,000 and £32,000.
Ponari was sentenced to seven years after pleading guilty to offering to supply MDMA, being concerned in the supply of cocaine, being concerned in the supply of cannabis and being concerned in the supply of MDMA.
Following his sentence, the Eastern Region Special Operation Unit’s (ERSOU) Proceeds of Crime Unit (POCU) launched a financial investigation which discovered Ponari benefitted by a total of £724,938.89 from criminal conduct.
A Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) hearing held at Peterborough Crown Court on Friday (12 December), ordered Ponari to repay his currently held assets worth £128,881.40. He was ordered to pay it back within three months or face a further year in prison, where he would still be required to repay the money.
Senior Financial Investigations Manager for POCU, Paul Fitzsimmons, said: “Our teams work tirelessly to ensure that offenders are stripped of their criminal earnings, this investigation has led to a successful outcome where a drug dealer is being ordered to pay back ill-gotten gains.”