Island hotel manager ‘rinsed 400k’

An Isle of Wight hotel manager evaded paying VAT and money laundered nearly £400,000 over a three year period, a court heard. Martin Hill, 50, who now lives in Spain, fraudulently evaded paying VAT and transferred £394,000 from three hotel businesses into different bank accounts, between March 2013 and September 2016, it is claimed. Hill is charged on six counts for fraudulent tax evasion and counts of transferring criminal property from different companies named under the Burlington Hotel in Sandown…