Man who forged lottery winnings must repay £470k
A man, living in Birmingham UK, claimed to have won the lottery 123 times. He is now ordered to pay back over £470,000 in fake winnings.
Kashaf Ali Khan, 44, used his fake winnings on a house in Solihull, Birmingham, after claiming he had ‘won’ the money. He had nearly £500,000 removed from his bank accounts after a court order was put in place.
The money launderer told police he had paid for his extravagant £413,000 home by winning the lottery more than 100 times. The jobless gambler claimed he bought his luxurious home after 123 wins on the Pakistani Lottery. Additionally, he used his father’s name to buy the tickets. This amounts to winning the lottery 40 weeks in a row.
In fact, Khan used criminal monies to buy a house on Prospect Lane in Solihull, Birmingham. Money had been transferred into Khan’s father’s UK bank account from Dubai. He had used black-market prize bond dealers in Pakistan. They sell on their winning tickets at inflated prices to crooks like Khan, who need to clean their dirty money with prize money issued in their name.
Furthermore, Khan used another £175,000 of criminal monies to pay off previous proceeds of crime order. That order had been made after Khan was convicted previously of money laundering. He paid off the order with the illegal funds while serving a suspended sentence.
What were the consequences?
The NCA seized £472,740 from Khan under the Proceeds of Crime Act and the order was fulfilled on 20 August 2019 after he sold off his home. Khan admitted money laundering by using criminal money to buy the house and a further count of money laundering by using the £175,000 to pay off the court order.
Consequently, he was jailed for 22 months at Birmingham Crown Court in August 2018.
The NCA’s investigating officer Phil Houghton said…
“Kashaf Ali Khan wrongfully thought he could get away with funding his lifestyle by criminal means.
“Offenders like Khan play an enabling role for other criminals to move and clean the proceeds of crime.
“They will be relentlessly pursued by the NCA.”
