Reid started and ran the Coventry rave club The Eclipse, according to the Coventry Telegraph
A former nightclub boss jailed for plotting to break a drug baron out of custody has been ordered to pay back more than £1.3m in criminal gains.
Stuart Reid was given a six-year sentence for his part in a conspiracy to break out Tipton's John Anslow from a prison escort near HMP Hewell, near Redditch, in 2012.
Reid, 54, is also serving 14 more years for pushing Class A and Class B drugs.
He was ordered to repay £1,319,427.43 or face nine further years in jail.
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The Coventry Telegraph said, external Reid previously started and ran the Coventry rave club The Eclipse.
Coded Christmas card
West Midlands Police, which froze Reid's assets after he was sentenced for drugs supply in 2014, said he owned designer clothes, cars, a Rolex watch and several properties worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
A confiscation order was made at Leicester Crown Court on Friday to recoup his ill-gotten gains under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
The force said Reid's involvement in Anslow's jailbreak was in sending him a coded Christmas card before the plan was sprung.
An international manhunt began after Anslow absconded in September 2012. He was caught 14 months later in northern Cyprus.
John Anslow's bid to appeal against his convictions and sentence was turned down by London's Criminal Appeal Court in October 2015
A jury found Anslow not guilty of murdering Richard Deakin in Chasetown, Staffordshire, but he is serving 29 years for drug supply and escaping custody.
At London's Criminal Appeal Court, judges refused Anslow's bid to appeal against his convictions and sentence in October 2015.
David Harrison and Daryl Dickens, from Bilston, West Midlands, were handed life sentences for Mr Deakin's murder in December 2012.
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