A Romanian pimp conned UK taxpayers out of nearly £10,000 while running a string of brothels across a Scottish city.
Brazen crook Eduard Stanciu was claiming dodgy tax rebates for his business while he was living off the earnings of the prostitutes he managed in Dundee. Stanciu spent three years getting HMRC to pay him tax refunds by submitting false claims when his business was to profit from the illicit sex trade.
At Dundee Sheriff Court on Monday Stanciu, 32, admitted conning the taxman out of £9,840.56 in relation to claims over a three-year period. He also admitted "living wholly or in part on the earnings of prostitution" relating to three flats in the city's Blackness Road and Arklay Street.
