Restaurant director given suspended jail sentence for VAT fraud

A director of a Manchester restaurant, who changed his name to hide his part in his family’s £1m VAT fraud, been given a suspended jail sentence. Sibtain Ali, 35, of Burton on Trent, laundered £32,000 from the £1m fraud that saw his two sisters, his brother and his brother’s partner make false VAT repayment claims for several companies, including the Popadom and Shawarma Express restaurants in the Trafford Centre. The four fraudsters were sentenced in 2010 after an investigation by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). Tasejad H... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
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