A former Yorkshire town councillor who tried to swindle more than £440,000 out of the Government’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme in the summer of 2020 has been told he must repay almost £110,000 in the next three months.
When he was jailed for two-and-a-half years in March Mohammed Ikram, a 36-year-old married man, claimed the scam was aimed at paying off debts he had run up operating a care home, but Deputy Circuit Judge Timothy Clayson said the majority of the offending was motivated by greed.
Mr Jacobs said the defendant had available assets of £86,000, which was a 50 per cent equity share in an address at Springfield Court, Keighley, and a “tainted gift” of £60,000 which was already subject to a restraint order. Recorder Tahir Khan KC said he was making a confiscation order against Ikram for the total sum of £109,939.64 and he would have three months to pay that amount or face a further 12 months in prison.
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