British drug baron who exported £700m worth of cocaine to Australia with her husband is ordered to pay back just £800K

Arti Dhir has been ordered to repay £808,627.81 from a cocaine trafficking operation that prosecutors said generated more than £743 million. The order follows her conviction with her husband, Kaval Raijada, in one of the largest cocaine export cases involving Australia; both are serving 33-year prison sentences.

The couple were convicted in 2024 of 12 cocaine export offences and 18 money-laundering offences linked to activity between 2019 and 2021. Investigators said they shipped up to seven tonnes of cocaine hidden in toolboxes on commercial aircraft, moved millions of pounds in cash and stored gold bars; Dhir has three months to pay or face a further seven years in prison.