Stamp duty scam lawyer must pay back £125,500

A lawyer jailed for stealing more than £350,000 in stamp duty after his salary was halved during the recession must pay back £125,500 or face another 18 months behind bars. Anthony Maragh, 57, was sentenced to three years and four months in prison last November after owning up to the five-year tax scam. He under-declared the prices of properties bought by his clients so he could pay the extra cash into his own bank account. Maragh used the same con…