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News in brief: 28/06/2014

TAX FRAUD: One of Britain’s most wanted tax fugitives was jailed for more than 11 years yesterday for a multimillion-pound fraud. 

Michael Voudouri, 46, of Stirling, pleaded guilty in October 2012 to laundering a total of £11.6 million through foreign and domestic banks, company accounts and individuals as part of a VAT scam between 2001 and 2004.

He fled to northern Cyprus but was tracked and extradited to Scotland last month. 

 

PAEDOPHILIA: A casino boss who thought he was chatting to a 13-year-old girl on the internet and tried to encourage her to have sex with him was jailed for three years yesterday.

Keith Fagan, 56, of Devonshire Road, Belmont, Durham, admitted six counts of attempting to incite under 16-year-old girls to engage in sexual activity.

He used chatrooms to encourage underage girls to carry out sex acts while he watched online.

Calling himself “Keith, 49, from Durham,” Fagan used chatrooms to try to encourage under-age girls to carry out sex acts while he watched online.

 

A FORMER adviser to David Cameron was charged yesterday with making and possessing indecent images of children.

Patrick Rock, 63, was arrested at his home in London in February after Downing Street contacted police.

Yesterday the National Crime Agency charged the ex-Whitehall adviser with three offences of making indecent images of children and one offence of possession of 59 indecent images of children.

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