Cowshed crook must hand over £250k

A fraudster who masterminded one of the world’s biggest ever swindles from a cowshed has been forced to hand over nearly quarter of a million pounds 13 years after he was convicted. Virendra Rastogi, 52, set up a vast con which saw banks pour more than a billion pounds into what they believed was a global business empire. In reality, the money went to a network of sham companies, whose registered offices turned out to include a cow shed in…