Nasser Ahmed
Ahmed fled during his trial for indulging in a ?156 million VAT fraud in Bristol. The judge sentenced him to 6 years in prison in his absence.
Details:
Case number: CS1008-4921
Offences: Fraud and money laundering
Name: Nasser Ahmed
Sex: Male
Hair colour: Black
Hair type: Receding
Extra information: Uses the aliases Tamir Ahmed and Oman Kosir
Ahmed called police and customs officers and threatened to have them murdered for partaking of an inquiry against him.
He was found guilty as charged of crime at Bristol Crown Court, but decamped in the February 2010 trial.
The fraud concerned a gang importing millions of PC chips from Luxembourg over a four year period. No VAT was paid on the imports.
Ahmed conned his buyers by selling them the same chips and charging VAT on the sales, which he pocketed.
The court heard that for seven weeks, he deposited ?500,000 cash in to a deposit account each day.
When police raided his home, they found ?52,000 cash stashed under his bed.
Ahmed was caught on CCTV skulking out of the court as the jury returned a guilty verdict. He hasn't been seen since, but is said to be living in Dubai.
His way of life let him buy a selection of properties and top end cars, including a Porsche.
Previous HM revenue and Customs investigator Hank Cole, who headed the inquiry, said: "The normal critical or heavy crime of the seventies was armed robbery. In the eighties and nineties it was drug trafficking. In this century all those crimes still continue but the kinds of villains who were involved in those activities are now turning their hand to gigantic revenue and VAT crimes as the amounts of money concerned are so enormous."
Cole further said Ahmed's gang members had violent reputes and a succession of convictions for drug trafficking, possession of offensive weapons and driving with intention to kill. One was executed in a gangland shooting.
If you have information that may lead to Ahmed's arrest, call Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.
Ahmed fled during his trial for indulging in a ?156 million VAT fraud in Bristol. The judge sentenced him to 6 years in prison in his absence.
Details:
Case number: CS1008-4921
Offences: Fraud and money laundering
Name: Nasser Ahmed
Sex: Male
Hair colour: Black
Hair type: Receding
Extra information: Uses the aliases Tamir Ahmed and Oman Kosir
Ahmed called police and customs officers and threatened to have them murdered for partaking of an inquiry against him.
He was found guilty as charged of crime at Bristol Crown Court, but decamped in the February 2010 trial.
The fraud concerned a gang importing millions of PC chips from Luxembourg over a four year period. No VAT was paid on the imports.
Ahmed conned his buyers by selling them the same chips and charging VAT on the sales, which he pocketed.
The court heard that for seven weeks, he deposited ?500,000 cash in to a deposit account each day.
When police raided his home, they found ?52,000 cash stashed under his bed.
Ahmed was caught on CCTV skulking out of the court as the jury returned a guilty verdict. He hasn't been seen since, but is said to be living in Dubai.
His way of life let him buy a selection of properties and top end cars, including a Porsche.
Previous HM revenue and Customs investigator Hank Cole, who headed the inquiry, said: "The normal critical or heavy crime of the seventies was armed robbery. In the eighties and nineties it was drug trafficking. In this century all those crimes still continue but the kinds of villains who were involved in those activities are now turning their hand to gigantic revenue and VAT crimes as the amounts of money concerned are so enormous."
Cole further said Ahmed's gang members had violent reputes and a succession of convictions for drug trafficking, possession of offensive weapons and driving with intention to kill. One was executed in a gangland shooting.
If you have information that may lead to Ahmed's arrest, call Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.
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