A globe-trotting tax consultant who stole £6.9 million from construction workers’ pay packets has been ordered to repay £1.7 million or face a further four years in jail.

Former Inland Revenue employee, David Michael Hughes, known as Mike Hughes, 55, from Kent, was jailed for nine-and-a-half years in August 2018. 

While posing as a legitimate payroll service provider, he led a financial conspiracy using a web of bank...