Booze baron cheated taxman out of £16 million

A booze baron who led a gang smuggling vast amounts of alcohol into the UK in a £16million tax scam has been jailed for 10 years. Shafqat Majeed, 52, also known as Chas, lived in a million-pound home in Hove, East Sussex, and owned a fleet of flash cars. Majeed, the former chairman of League Two team Crawley Town FC, masterminded the VAT fraud, running a network of false companies with his associates. Southwark Crown Court heard how Majeed’s gang…