Where there’s muck, there’s tax fraud

A scrap metal dealer who masterminded a £15m tax fraud to enjoy a lavish lifestyle faces losing his fortune at a proceeds of crime hearing. Anthony Bond, 65, and his associates dealt in scrap silver and car exhausts while pocketing vast sums of money in a ‘missing trader’ VAT fraud. The catalytic converters in car exhausts contain valuable precious metals including platinum, palladium and rhodium. Bond owned a five-bedroom house, a holiday home in Spain, a fleet of cars including…