Hull gangmaster Kuldip Singh failed to repay money he made from criminal empire
A GANGMASTER who gave away his newsagent's shop to a paperboy to avoid handing over £1.5m from his criminal empire has been jailed for failing to repay the money.
Kuldip Singh has been jailed for three and a half years after he failed to repay any of the money he made through his criminal activities.
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Criminal conduct: Kuldip Singh has been jailed for three and a half years.
Singh, who was convicted for supplying migrant workers to three horticultural firms in the East Riding without a licence, had benefited from his criminal conduct to the tune of £1.5m.
Hull Crown Court heard Singh made £1,562,970 through his crimes but has £314,138 in assets.
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Under the Proceeds of Crime Act, he was ordered to sell his business, his family land in India and six cars to pay back the money he made through his crimes.
But Singh, of Rivelin Park, Kingswood, has failed to repay the money and magistrates, sitting at Leeds Magistrates' Court, have now sentenced him to three and a half years in prison for default of payment.
Just last month, Singh was jailed for three months for contempt of court after conning his paperboy into taking over his shop in Lowgate, Sutton.
Singh offered to pay the paperboy, who earned £3 an hour delivering papers, £1,000 to take over his shop and become a director.
But Singh, of Kingswood, was trying to hide his assets to con financial investigators into believing he had no money.
Prosecutor Ed Bindloss said: "Singh purported to sell his business but in effect gave away his business to a paperboy.
"He told him he wanted to step down and let him become the new director of the shop."
Singh, 49, had been banned from selling any of his property by the court pending a proceeds of crime hearing.
But just a month before the court made its final ruling in June last year, Singh tried to sign over his shop, which was valued at more than £100,000 and was his main source of income, to his paperboy.
The paperboy only realised something was amiss when Singh tried to put his name on the water bills and asked him to sign contracts with his suppliers.
Singh claimed he did it because of the "bad publicity" surrounding his gangmaster conviction and denied a charge of contempt of court.
But, after hearing evidence, Judge Jeremy Richardson QC, sitting at Hull Crown Court, found him guilty, describing it as a "crude" attempt by Singh to conceal his assets.
He said: "It was not a sophisticated enterprise but it was utterly deliberate."
Singh was originally sentenced to six months' imprisonment, suspended for two years, in 2009 after admitting offences under the Gangmaster Licensing Act.
Singh was brought to justice after an investigation by the UK Border Agency Immigration Crime Team into his activities.
They discovered Singh had illegally supplied workers to three East Riding firms through his companies Diamond Employment Agency and Opiecare Ltd between November 2006 and June 2008.
He had applied for a gangmaster licence but, although his application was refused, he continued to supply workers illegally.
Comments
by unified
Thursday, December 20 2012, 8:43AM
“Tigerpeter
He hasn't paid tax. A bit like costa coffee only millions less and they get away with it”
by Dave_Navarro
Sunday, December 16 2012, 10:00AM
“Where do the police get these figures for "proceeds of crime" from. Are we really supposed to believe he made 1.5 million pounds in a couple of years for supplying a few workers to work in greenhouses.
Are these 3 horticultural firms employing so many people that they can afford to pay £1,500,000 to save a couple of pounds an hour on workers wages?
The whole thing doesn't add up.”
by albaz
Sunday, December 16 2012, 9:40AM
“"Send him back to where he came from"? Would that be Kingswood or Sutton?
The problem now is two-fold,mass immigration from Asia,which could and should have been prevented and economic migrant workers from EU countries which we have to accept.
Millions of Pakistani immigrants now have the same passport that I have and are as "British" as I can claim to be despite the fact that I was born in England,as were my parents and Maternal and Paternal Grandparents.
Even leaving aside EU workers,some of whom will return home,we are being swamped in some cities and there are known to be around 200,000 illegals that have been "lost"apart from those given leave to stay because of the time they have been here.
The open door policy of the last 10 years or so has been insane,but the effects will be felt even more so in the next few years. Incredibly even the Tories are not stopping the influx,just telling the Africans and Asian newcomers to learn English!
Political stupidity and voter apathy has left this country in a mess from which there is no escape,unless "we" emigrate of course.”
by McLafferty
Sunday, December 16 2012, 9:38AM
“3 months in jail? Oh, that'll teach him won't it???”
by AndyBeverley
Sunday, December 16 2012, 9:21AM
“Deport and get rid....simple!!!!
Incidentally why won't the HDM let us comment on that scum Horner and her boyfriend who abused her child?? String em up or at least throw away the key!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
by NeilTheasby
Sunday, December 16 2012, 2:18AM
“Migrant workers? There was a time when there were no so-called migrant workers in England. Did they all have passports and had they all been legally permitted to enter our country? Oh, I forgot, I mustn't ask such things as they would of course have been enriching our nation's cultural mix and of course host English people like me just sit around watching TV and munching chips all day long - we don't want to work and of course we must be grateful to these shadowy workers as employed by humanitarian entrepreneurs like patriotic Kuldip Singh. It all stinks.”
by hullcity
Sunday, December 16 2012, 1:31AM
“feeze his bank accounts and assets and give it all to the unemmployed who are british and send the imigrants packing this goverment is a sft touch letting imigrants in this country and taking libbertys no wonder this country is going to the dogs”
by hullcity
Sunday, December 16 2012, 1:26AM
“send the scum back were he came from”
by JayOnly
Saturday, December 15 2012, 8:18PM
“Call him owt you like but a Hull man he most certainly isn't. Use the returns label and send him back.”
by mikael2002
Saturday, December 15 2012, 6:15PM
“Goldieboy - spot on, my son . . . spot on!! We have opened up our borders to the scum of other nations who come here and take the hard working people of the UK for one incredible ride. I agree with you wholeheartedly - look at a line up of wanted people in the HDM and the common denominator is skin colour. However, oh if we had the race card to play!!!!!!!!!!!”