A drug dealer who read hundreds of books in jail to learn how to carry out an elaborate £1m tax scam has been ordered to pay back nearly £400,000 of his ill-gotten gains.
Mubbashir Alam Aslam swotted up on business from behind bars after being sent down for dealing heroin. Days after he was released, the 42-year-old set up fake clothing companies and began cheating HM Revenue and Customs out of VAT refunds with fake receipts.
Aslam, who set up six bogus businesses, spent the cash extravagantly on drugs and gambling at casinos. He was jailed for five years in 2014 following a probe into the scam.
Aslam, recently released from prison, has now been told he must pay back £398,214 he has stashed in various bank accounts.
