TWO JEWELLERS CONVICTED OF EVADING VAT WERE JAILED

TWO JEWELLERS CONVICTED OF EVADING VAT WERE JAILED AT THE OLD
BAILEY ON FRIDAY.

ROBERT NEIL, 48, OF OVINGTON GARDENS, CHELSEA, WAS ALSO MADE
CRIMINALY BANKRUPT IN THE SUM OF #353,000.

AND FOUR BARS OF SILVER
AND GOLD RECOVERED AFTER THE ARREST OF VICTOR POULTON, 33, OF MULBERRY
HOUSE, BROMLEY ROAD, SHORTLAND, KENT, WERE ORDERED TO BE FORFEITED.

‘YOU OBTAINED VERY LARGE SUMS OF MONEY BY YOUR DISHONESTY.

AND WHILE ON BAIL YOU ATTEMPTED YET AGAIN TO OBTAINS SUMS OF MONEY TO
DEFRAUD THE CUSTOMS AND EXCISE’, SAID JUDGE KENNETH MACHIN, QC.

MR ANDREW COLLINS, QC, PROSECUTION SAID THAT AFTER REGISTERING
FOR VAT AND SELLING THE PRECIOUS METALS THEY POCKETED THE 15 PERCENT
TAX ON EACH SALE.

ARRESTED IN MARCH, 1984, AND BAILED, THE TWO MEN WERE ‘SETTING
IT ALL UP AGAIN’.

BUT THIS TIME CUSTOMS AND EXCISE OFFICIALS WERE
TIPPED OFF AND THEY WERE ARRESTED.

THE COURT HEARD THEY SOLD GOLD AND SILVER UNDER FICTIOUS NAMES
AND USED ACCOMMODATION ADDRESSES FOR THEIR MAIL.

A COMPANY WOULD
‘DISAPPEAR’ – ONLY TO REAPPEAR IN ANOTHER GUISE AND START THE
OPERATION ALL OVER AGAIN, SAID MR COLLINS.

EACH OF THE SALES THAT ADDED UP TO AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF MONEY
WERE DESCRIBED AS GOLD SCRAP, HE ADDED.

MR COLLINS HAD ALLEGED THE MEN EVADED #440,000 ON ‘WELL OVER
#2 MILLION’.

NEIL WAS FOUND GUILTY OF THREE CHARGES OF FRAUDULENTLY EVADING
VAT.

HE WAS JAILED FOR TWO YEARS AND NINE MONTHS.

POULTON WAS CONVICTED OF A SIMILAR CHARGE AND MAKNING A FALSE
VAT DECLARATION.

HE WAS JAILED FOR FOUR MONTHS.

ENDS.

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