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A tax officer who fraudulently pocketed more than £200,000 to help pay off his wedding debt has been jailed. Mohammed Daar, 36, was described as “the leading player” in a sophisticated fraud that involved falsifying taxpayers’ personal records, which he then used to submit false business mileage expense claims, a court heard.

Money from those claims was paid to dozens of bank accounts controlled by Daar or other people under his control, a crown court was told. Daar was jailed for three years for fraud and money laundering offences.

Bradford Crown Court heard Daar, of Princeville Street, Listerhills, Bradford, West Yorks., had a gambling habit at the time, was addicted to drugs, and was facing a debt from his wedding. Barris

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