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Restaurant owner must pay £1.2 million or face seven years behind bars

News Team, 28/09/2020

A restaurant owner who laundered cash stolen by his VAT fraudster wife has been ordered to hand over £1.2 million within three months or face an extra seven-and-a-half years in jail.

Yong Hong Lu of Farnham, Surrey, was jailed for two years last May after an HMRC investigation found he had laundered more than £1 million.

His wife Huey Jun Khoo and business partner Jing Fu of Crondall, Hampshire, were sentenced for VAT fraud in May 2019, after they used an off-the-books card machine at the Bon East Chines...


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