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The married couple, who conned insurance companies after they staged husband John's death in a fake canoeing accident, will see their assets confiscated under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
Mrs Darwin will agree to pay a total of £591,838.25 - made up of £363,700.01 compensation to the victims of the crime and £228,138.24 under the terms of the Proceeds of Crime Act.
Husband John, 58, was not at court, but he has agreed to pay a nominal sum of £1 because he has no financial assets. Mrs Darwin, 57, was in court for the confiscation hearing.
Anne Darwin was jailed for six-and-a-half years last year after a jury found her guilty of six counts of fraud and nine of money laundering. Her husband was jailed for six years and three months after admitting seven charges of deception.
The crooked couple, of The Cliff, Seaton Carew, near Hartlepool, embarked on a new life in Panama after Mr Darwin faked his death in March 2002 by vanishing off the coast.
He turned up at a UK police station in November 2007, claiming he was a missing person with amnesia. But the pair's ruse was blown apart when a photo of the couple in Panama turned up on the internet.
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