Two convicted members of the Hells Angels motorcycle club from Ontario have each been fined $100,000 for running a drug network in Quebec.
Walter Stadnick and Donald Stockford were given two years to pay the fine spend another 18 months in prison. The men were recently each sentenced to 20 years in prison for their role in Quebec's deadly biker war that claimed more than 150 lives.
Quebec Superior Court Justice Jerry Zigman said Monday men earned nearly $2 million in profits from running a drug business that saw more than $10 million pass through an account between March 30, 1999, and Dec. 19, 2000.
The fines were levied in lieu of drug profits that police have not been able to locate.
Crown prosecutor Brigitte Bishop welcomed the forfeiture ruling as another victory against the Hells Angels by taking some of their profits of crime.
Bishop had initially sought a fine of $10 million which the judge rejected.
In lieu of forfeiting their houses in the Hamilton area, the men's wives will have to pay a total of $140,000 to Quebec from second mortgages.
Stadnick will forfeit three vehicles including a Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
Stockford will lose $34,000 in cash found in his house on the day of arrest three years ago.
Stockford and Stadnick have appealed their convictions.
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