HMRC’s Most Wanted

In their fight to hunt down the UK's most wanted tax fugitives, HMRC has taken the unprecedented step of publishing photos and details of 20 transients on an FBI style noticeboard in a bid to encourage members of the public to help find them.

Tax Fugitives

The 20 criminals that HMRC are eager to bring to task have collectively cost the taxpayer over £765 million. All of the individuals concerned have fled after being charged with a crime or during trial. Their offences centre mainly on VAT and smuggling although there are also cases of money laundering and income tax fraud.

Those on the run are as follows:

Name & Age Nationality Believed Whereabouts

Estimated Cost to Taxpayer

(£)

Crime
Hussain Asad Chohan (49) UK/Pakistan Dubai 200M Smuggler & fraudster
Nasser Ahmed (40) UK Pakistan/Dubai 156M Large scale VAT fraud
Zafar Baidar Chisthi (33) UK Pakistan 150M Large scale VAT fraud
Darsim Abdullah (42) Iraq Iraq 24M Money laundering syndicate
Leigang Liang (38) China UK 2.6M Tobacco smuggling
Olutayo Owolabi (40) UK UK 1M Tax credit fraud & money laundering
Wayne Joseph Hardy (49) UK South Africa 1.9M Tax fraud on tobacco products
Adam Umerji aka Shafiq Patel (34) UK Dubai 64M VAT fraud & money laundering
Gordon Arthur (60) UK USA 15M Tobacco & alcohol smuggling
Emma Elizabeth Tazey (38) UK USA 15M Tobacco & alcohol smuggling
John Nugent (53) UK/Eire USA 22M Duty & VAT fraud
Malcolm McGregor McGowan (60) UK Spain 4M Tobacco smuggling
Timur Mehmet (39) UK Cyprus 25M VAT fraud
Vladimir Jeriomin (34) Ukraine Russia/Lithuania 4.8M Fraudulent tax
Cesare Selvini (52) Switzerland Switzerland 600K Smuggling platinum bars
Dimitri Gaskov (27) Estonia Estonia 197K Tobacco smuggling
Mohammed Sami Kaak (45) UK/Tunisia Tunisia 822K Tobacco smuggling
Rory Martin McGann (43) Eire Ireland 902K VAT offences
Yehuda Cohen (35) Israel Israel 800K VAT fraud
Sahil Jain (30) India UK 328K VAT fraud

HMRC's rogues gallery can be seen at on HMRC's Flickr channel.

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