AN Ealing doctor under-declared his income by £700,000 in a tax fraud.
Khaled Yasin, 64, of Pickering House, Windmill Road, Ealing, was sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court to two years in prison, suspended for two years, and ordered to complete a 200-hour community punishment order.
He was found guilty of eight charges of cheating the public revenue.
Yasin was paid £1.3m for his work as a forensic medical examiner for the Met Police over an 11-year period.
However, he paid tax on only £655,955 of that money, which meant he avoided a £300,000 tax bill. He also owes £50,000 in interest.
The evasion was discovered as part of an HMRC campaign to tackle undeclared tax and income from doctors and dentists.
David Margree, Assistant Director, Criminal Investigation, said: “Yasin thought he could get away with the fraud because he had declared some of his earnings – he was wrong.
“This was a serious breach of Yasin’s professional standards. Had he used the voluntary disclosure campaign to put his financial affairs in order, he could have avoided a criminal record and serious damage to his reputation.
The fraud took place between April 2002 and April 2011. During this time, Yasin also worked as a GP for a health centre in Brentford.
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