30Assessment of proceeds of drug trafficking

30 Assessment of proceeds of drug trafficking

30 Assessment of proceeds of drug trafficking

(1) A court is to assess the benefits (if any) derived in connection with drug trafficking by having regard to information before the court concerning all or any of the following matters—

(a) the money, or the value of property other than money, that came into the possession or control of the defendant, or another person at the request or by the direction of the defendant, at any time in connection with drug trafficking by the defendant,

(b) the value of any benefit that was provided for the defendant, or for another person at the request or direction of the defendant, in respect of the defendant’s involvement or participation in a public promotion relating to drug trafficking (or such part of the value of the benefit as is commensurate with the proportion of the defendant’s involvement or participation that is concerned with drug trafficking),

(c) the value of any benefit, other than a benefit of a kind referred to in paragraph (a) or (b), that was provided for the defendant, or another person at the request or by the direction of the defendant, because of drug trafficking by the defendant,

(d) the market value, at the time of the drug trafficking, of substances similar or substantially similar to the prohibited drug or prohibited plant involved in the drug trafficking offence or offences,

(e) the amount that was, or the range of amounts that were, ordinarily paid for the doing of an act or thing similar or substantially similar to the doing of the act or thing constituting the drug trafficking,

(f) the value of the defendant’s property appearing to the court—

(i) to have been held by the defendant at any time since his or her conviction, or

(ii) to have been transferred to the defendant at any time since the beginning of the period of 6 years that ended when the proceedings were instituted against the defendant,

(g) the value of the defendant’s income and expenditure—

(i) at any time since his or her conviction, or

(ii) at any time since the beginning of the period of 6 years that ended when the proceedings were instituted against the defendant.