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Restaurant fraudster caught by his own secret books

News Team, 28/05/2019

The owner of a Derbyshire restaurant has been jailed for three years for a £480,000 tax fraud that was discovered when investigators uncovered a hidden sales book dating back five years.

Nazrul Islam, 52, from Birmingham, hid sales in a bid to evade nearly £480,000 of tax payments at his Repton-based restaurant, an investigation by HMRC revealed.

Mr Islam was arrested in April 2017, which led to searches of his Great Barr home and his Jaipur restaurant, in High Street.

HMRC officers discovered meticulous records of daily takings between 2012 and 2017 at his house, which did not match up with sales he submitt...


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