A gang convicted of a £176m VAT carousel fraud has been jailed, with the ring leader receiving the longest sentence for such a fraud in UK history. Dilawar Ravjani, 34, received a 17-year sentence for his involvement in the complex tax scam. The fraud concerned the selling of high-end mobile phones with Ravjani's gang - numbering 15 people - claiming to have sold £1.7bn worth of the communication gadgets, when in many cases the phones did not even exist.
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