The mastermind of one of the UK’s biggest ever carousel tax frauds has been ordered to pay back more than £90 million with the sale of property across London, Preston and overseas. Sock manufacturer Arif Patel, 57, of Preston, and his criminal gang tried to steal £97 million through VAT repayment claims on false exports of textiles and mobile phones.
14 people have been arrested on suspicion of using stolen data to steal millions of pounds of tax. HMRC officers joined Romanian police on raids which are linked to sophisticated phishing attacks.
A Blackpool nightclub owner and his accountant have been convicted for their involvement in a £4.9 million tax fraud.
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.
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.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has seized nearly 15,000 imported items from delivery warehouses across the UK – in a bid to tackle customs fraud and help level the playing field for honest businesses.
A fugitive fraudster who stole more than £750,000 in a tax and mortgage fraud faces an extra five years in prison for not paying back the money.
A former accountant of a national children’s charity has been jailed for 10 years for using his knowledge of the sector to steal £1.5 million through fraudulent Gift Aid claims.
A sacked HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) officer who abused her position to help her husband launder £3.3 million of criminal cash has been sentenced.
A tax fugitive who was on the run for nearly three years, was finally caught when he ordered a kebab to his hideout.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Takeaways across England have been subject to unannounced inspections as part of an Electronic Sales Suppression (ESS) probe. The action by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) officers took place at a total of 17 different outlets in London, Ipswich, Manchester and Newcastle over the last month. It follows several separate till fraud enquiries, which include the arrest of a 47-year-old man.
A gang that sent £26 million of dirty money to Dubai after depositing criminal cash at banks a dozen times a day for nearly a year have been jailed
With the Self Assessment tax deadline behind us, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is warning people to be wary of bogus tax refund offers. Fraudsters could set their sights on Self Assessment customers, with more than 11.5 million submitting a tax return by last month’s deadline. Taxpayers who completed their tax return for the 2022 to 2023 tax year by the 31 January deadline might be taken in.
More than 20 takeaways and restaurants in Edinburgh, London, St Helens and Stoke have been subject to unannounced visits as part of a crackdown on electronic till fraud. The action by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) officers took place over the last four weeks, with 24 hot food takeaways and restaurants targeted.
The head of an international tobacco smuggling operation has been jailed for six years.
Cybercrime experts at HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) have helped bring down a prolific fraudster who sold scamming software to criminals across the world
