A CONVICTED money launderer has been ordered to repay more than £100,000 of his ill-gotten gains.
Shakil Ahmed was sentenced at Bradford Crown Court in September last year after a judge labelled him “clearly a dishonest man”.
Ahmed, 32, of Devonshire Street, Keighley, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud Bradford Council of £17,295 in housing benefit and six offences of acquiring criminal property worth almost £170,000.
Prosecutor Tim Capstick said the housing benefit fraud lasted from December 2007 to June 2012.
During that time, Ahmed paid £169,799 into six bank accounts.
Cash deposits were made into his accounts in West Yorkshire, Luton, Birmingham and Maidenhead while he was on benefits and not filing tax returns.
Ahmed was sentenced to 22 months imprisonment, suspended for two years, with supervision and 240 hours of unpaid work.
Yesterday, Judge Robert Bartfield made a confiscation order under the Proceeds of Crime Act, ruling that Ahmed’s benefit from his criminality was £188,727. His available assets, to be seized by the Crown, were set at £112,200.
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