Alan Chestnutt must pay a £101,683,66 Confiscation Order after operating an illegal waste site in Northern Ireland.
Officers from the Northern Ireland Environment Agency’s (NIEA) Environmental Crime Unit (ECU) opened an investigation into Chestnutt, 53, in 2017.
They discovered household, commercial and industrial waste being sorted on Chestnutt’s land in the vicinity of Cabragh Road, Bushmills.
Following the NIEA investigation, Chestnutt pleaded guilty in 2023 to offences contrary to Article 4 of the Waste and Contaminated Land (NI) Order 1997.
As well as the Confiscation Order, the judge sentenced Chestnutt to 10 months in prison on two counts and four months on a further count to run concurrently, suspended for three years.
A default sentence of one year imprisonment was also granted should Chestnutt fail to pay the Confiscation Order within six months.
The Confiscation Order granted equates to the criminal benefit generated by Chestnutt through the illegal depositing and keeping of controlled waste at the site.
