Crawley Town boss swindled £16m – pays back £80k

The former chairman of Crawley Town FC was ordered to pay back just £80,000 after he was jailed for smuggling vast amounts of alcohol into the UK in a £16m tax scam. Shafqat Majeed, 54, also known as Chas, lived in a million-pound home in Hove, East Sussex, and owned a fleet of flash cars. The former chairman of League Two team Crawley Town FC, masterminded the VAT fraud, running a network of false companies with his associates. Majeed’s gang…