‘Tax swindle paid for luxury lifestyle’

A businessman swindled £1.6m from the taxman to buy luxury cars and fund ‘expensive overseas travel’ with his wife, a court heard. Veekshit ‘Aaron’ Ramoo, 32, is accused of cheating the public revenue while his wife Yogdisha Ramooo, 30, allegedly laundered proceeds of the scam through her bank account. Veekshit falsified invoices through his company Ramoo Associates UK Limited to claim back £1.6m from HMRC, jurors were told. Steven Hopper, prosecuting, told London’s so-called ‘Nightingale’ court Prospero House: ‘Veekshit, sometimes…