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Craig Paton, Jackie Grant, Ruth Suter & Jacob Farr

East Lothian tax cheat has £1.6m seized after stuffing cash in envelopes at home

An East Lothian man has been told that he has to pay back £600,000 in unpaid tax after his home was raided and over £1million was seized from multiple bank accounts.

It is understood that this incident is one of the nation's biggest ever settlement cases.

Police Scotland kept and eye on Goljar Singh, 44, after several of his bank accounts were seen to have received substantial cash deposits. The Civil Recovery Unit (CRU) and HMRC say that they discovered the payments were being made from the same post office within a matter of weeks in March 2021.

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