The family of a drug dealer who was jailed for as part of a £180 million drugs money laundering scam have lost their homes because of his crimes.
Alam Zeb Khan was one of 32 men in Birmingham who was jailed for a total of 140 years in 2014 for laundering more than £180 million for drugs traffickers, the Daily Mail reported.
Now the High Court has ruled Khan's relatives must hand their properties over to the National Crime Agency, because they were bought with the proceeds from his criminal activities.
The court heard how criminally tainted money was allegedly used to build a property portfolio in the names of Khan's brother Aurang Khan, sister-in-law Shakar Begum, and wife Jamila Shabnam.
Two of the properties are in Birmingham, with two more in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland.
However the family denied they were part of a wider criminal network associated with Khan.
They also said the property transactions were part of the way business is conducted between members of an Anglo-Pakistani family.
Khan, of Birmingham, previously served sentences starting in 2000 for heroin smuggling, in 2012 for a cocaine supply plot and in 2013 for money laundering. In 2014 Khan, 38, was sentenced to seven years for drugs offences and another five years concurrent for Proceeds Of Crime Act offences June 2013.
