DNP seller told to pay back money made from crimes

A man convicted in England of selling a substance that was marketed as a weight loss drug has been forced to hand over £23,000 ($29,700). The amount that Jack Finney, 28, was told to pay back included Monero cryptocurrency, which the Food Standards Agency (FSA) sold off for £15,000 ($19,400), including £2,800 ($3,600) that will be paid back to the FSA. Monero cryptocurrency is a privacy coin that cannot be tracked and traced.

This is the first time that a case prosecuted by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has led to Monero’s conversion. Operation Atlas was a Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 investigation that led to a confiscation order against Finney, who was convicted of supplying DNP (2,4-Dinitrophenol), Class C drugs in the form of steroids and other controlled drugs, and prescription-only medicines. Dangers of DNP Finney was jailed for 28 months in December 2021 after pleading guilty at Chester Crown Court to offenses including the sale of DNP, a highly toxic industrial chemical that he sold on the dark web as a diet pill for weight loss.

DNP can cause serious harm to health and has resulted in at least 33 deaths across the UK. It was classed as a poison by the Home Office in October 2023. A financial investigator from the FSA’s National Food Crime Unit (NFCU) worked with the CPS to take Finney back to court and used the Proceeds of Crime Act to make him repay money he had made.

“We welcome the court’s decision to force Jack Finney to hand over the £23,000 that.