By James Simons-
Ashamed Bradford councillor jailed for nine years for running a visa scam has today been ordered to pay back £1 million under the Proceeds of Crime Act legislation.
Among Khadam Hussain’s available assets to be seized, including property in the UK and Dubai, as well as money in bank accounts.
Hussain, who previously represented the City ward in Bradford for the Conservatives, was described by a judge as the “originator and organizer” of the immigration fraud involving the submission of more than 100 applications supported by a range of fake documentation from solicitors, estate agents and would-be employers.
The prosecution allege the conspiracy to defraud Home Office entry clearance officers could have earned Hussain up to £175,000. Hussain claimed he had only earned an estimate of about £60,000 from his offending. The claims of a fraudster can never be really be taken as gospel because they are fraudulent by nature.
Hussain, of Box Tree Close, Girlington, Bradford, his 53-year-old wife Zahida and their three sons Adam Ashraf, 36, Gibran Hussain, 26, and 31-year-old Adnan Hussain were all found guilty of the conspiracy to defraud charge at the end of a trial at the original crown court case in November 2014.
