THREE convicted Oxford drug dealers have been ordered to pay a confiscation order of more than £300,000, according to police.

Nadeem Ahmed, 36, Waseem Ahmed, 34, and Ahmed Din, 78, all of Hurst Street, Oxford and Arshad Ahmed, 41, of Rymers Lane, Oxford, were given the new order at Oxford Crown Court on Tuesday 18.

Nadeem Ahmed is serving a seven year and six months sentence; Waseem Ahmed, six years and eight months; Mr Din three years and six months’; and Arshad Ahmed four years.

But now Judge Ross at Oxford Crown Court has ordered that they pay £325,384.14 within three months.

If they do not, then Arshad Ahmed will serve a default sentence of two and a half years’ imprisonment; Waseem Ahmed three years, Nadeem Ahmed six months and Ahmed Din one year and three months, to run consecutively with their current sentences.

All had pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to supply heroin and one count of conspiracy to supply crack cocaine, for offences between August 2016 and January 2017.

Waseem Ahmed had also pleaded guilty to one count of acquiring or possession of criminal property.

All of the men were arrested on January 24, 2017 after officers executed a warrant as part of the Stronghold campaign.

Financial Investigator Susan Strongman of Thames Valley Police Asset Recovery Team, Economic Crime Unit, said: “This result sends a clear message to drug dealers in our communities that Thames Valley Police will use all powers available to them deprive criminals of their assets.

“Thames Valley Police will rigorously pursue the recovery of proceeds of crime and ensure that, in the end, crime does not pay.”