A Birmingham millionaire has been exposed as a rogue landlord after forcing tenants out of his six-bedroom home - which boasted a cinema and swimming pool.
Zahid Khan, 30, had previously bragged of the wealth that bagged him the luxury pad in Yardley Wood Road, Moseley, and which had allowed him to pursue his expensive hobby of training to be a pilot.
The self-proclaimed entrepreneur had also spoken in the past of being held up at gunpoint and more recently said he planned to sell his mansion because of ‘jealous haters’.
But high-life-loving Khan has now effectively been branded a rogue landlord by a court.
It heard he had forced six tenants, all professionals, out of his Yardley Wood Road home - which was deemed unsafe and unlicensed.
Birmingham Magistrates Court last month heard how the millionaire breached regulations and made the tenants quit the property after he ‘intimidated’ them in December last year.
Together with an accomplice, he ordered them from the house and threatened to change the locks if they did not leave.
The court was also told the property breached management regulations, including having insufficient smoke alarms, a sparking electrical socket, holes in the ceilings and a tripping hazard on the stairs.
Khan was ordered to complete 150 hours of community service and fined £2,000 with costs of £5,070 and a victim surcharge after being found guilty of causing acts likely to interfere with his tenants’ peace and comfort under Section 1(3A) of the Protection from Eviction Act 1977, failure to obtain an HMO licence and breaching HMO Management Regulations.
