Mohammad Reza Ghadami (born March 1954) is an Iranian-born British property developer based in
Harlow
Harlow is a town and local government district located in the west of Essex, England. Founded as a Planned community, new town in 1947, it is situated on the border with Hertfordshire, and occupies a large area of land on the south bank of the ...
, Essex.
In 1995, Ghadami was convicted in the Crown Court at
St Albans
St Albans () is a cathedral city in Hertfordshire, England, east of Hemel Hempstead and west of Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Hatfield, north-west of London, south-west of Welwyn Garden City and south-east of Luton. St Albans was the first major ...
of two counts of being knowingly concerned in the fraudulent evasion of
Value Added Tax
A value-added tax (VAT or goods and services tax (GST), general consumption tax (GCT)) is a consumption tax that is levied on the value added at each stage of a product's production and distribution. VAT is similar to, and is often compared wi ...
.
In 2004, Ghadami was involved in a legal dispute with Harlow Council over the Harvey Centre in Harlow and other businesses that he owned that resulted in court proceedings.
In April 2014, a London court ordered British property investor
Paul Bloomfield, who was an associate of Ghadami and has since died, to pay Ghadami £110m in damages.
See also
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Jan Bonde Nielsen
References
External links
Cases.legal
1954 births
British businesspeople
British people of Iranian descent
Living people
British fraudsters
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