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  • Cash seized by HMRC officers

    Wanted tax fugitive jailed for money laundering

    A money launderer who fled during his 2018 trial has been extradited from the Netherlands and jailed for five-and-a-half years. Javed Ahmad was caught trying to stuff more than £100,000 in a filing cabinet when HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) officers raided his Burnley office in November 2015.

  • Kenneth Scott

    Crooked accountant who stole from staff jailed

    A crooked accountant who abused his position to orchestrate a £1.7 million tax fraud - spending the stolen cash on lavish holidays and cars - has been jailed for four years.

  • A doner kebab like the one Kemp ordered to his hideout

    He’s a doner!

    A tax fugitive who was on the run for nearly three years, was finally caught when he ordered a kebab to his hideout.

  • Stephen Hirst and Michael Hirst

    Brothers sentenced for offshore tax scam

    Two brothers, Stephen and Michael Hirst, have been sentenced for a 3.2 million offshore tax scam. The brothers used offshore companies to hide money from the sale of land in Wakefield, to evade tax. They were given the chance to pay what was owed through a Contractual Disclosure Facility but failed to do so.

  • Ehsan-Ul-Haque Dawood Patel and Hifzurrehman Patel

    Leicester rag trade fraudsters jailed

    The directors of a Leicester clothing company that supplied well known high street and online retailers have been jailed for a £1.3 million tax fraud.

  • Shahid Mohammad

    Car finance fraudster jailed

    A gang that set up 90 bogus companies in a bid to steal more than £800,000 in a VAT and car finance fraud have been sentenced to more than 10 years.

  • Carl and Craig Rees

    Siblings made-up movie in £1m tax fraud

    Brothers who tried to steal £1 million in a ‘staggering and audaciously dishonest’ film tax fraud have been jailed for a total of 14 years.

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