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Indian ordered to pay back £1 million

LONDON: A Briton of Indian origin, who was convicted of money-laundering for “handling” top-of-the-range stolen mobile phones, has been ordered by a court to pay back nearly £1 million from his illegal gains.

Narinder Sandhu from Southall, West London, was told by the Isleworth Crown Court to pay the money after he failed to prove that he obtained it legally.

The police said £999,713.21 was found in an offshore bank account.

Sandhu was arrested after the police found a large number of Vertu mobile phones, which sell for £3,000 each, at the house of an acquaintance of his, Mohammed Arfan. They were from a batch of mobile phones stolen in an armed robbery in Hampshire.

Arfan claimed he received the stolen phones from Sandhu. The police said there was no suggestion that Sandhu was involved in the original robbery in Hampshire but was charged with handling stolen property.

In November 2007, both men were convicted of money-laundering.

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