A former car wash boss convicted of money laundering has been ordered to repay £1 million or face another four-and-a-half years in jail.

Mohammed Azam Yaqoob – known as Mr Sparkles after the Dewsbury car wash he ran – was last month sentenced to nine years imprisonment for his part in a £5 million drugs trafficking conspiracy.

He brokered a heroin deal with contacts in Manchester and admitted conspiracy to supply class A drugs.

But now, it has emerged, Yaqoob, 45, of Ravensthorpe, was subject to a confiscation order under the Proceeds of Crime Act at Leeds Crown Court in July.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) went before a judge after an investigation into his finances and lifestyle.

In 2007 Yaqoob – described as a “career criminal” – was a member of a six-strong organised crime gang which defrauded an insurance company out of almost £330,000, the agency said.

Yaqoob was charged with theft and money laundering after he received £115,000 into his own bank account. He then withdrew £70,000 cash within days before his account was frozen. He was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment in 2012.

In July Her Honour Judge Sally Cahill QC ruled that assets belonging to Yaqoob were the profits of his illegal activities and granted the NCA a confiscation order for £993,760.45.

The judge said if he failed to pay up he would face a further four and a half years in prison and still owe the cash – plus interest – when he was released.

A decade ago Yaqoob was at the centre of a planning row over a nine-bedroomed mansion he built in Huddersfield Road, Mirfield.

Kirklees Council took enforcement action claiming the house had been built without planning permission.

The council ordered demolition but the decision was overturned on appeal and the council had to pay him £20,000 costs.

The house, said to be worth up to a £1 million at the time, was going to be a home for Yaqoob, his parents and siblings.

Despite there often being a car in the driveway, the house – behind locked gates – appears unlived in and the garden is overgrown. It is not known who owns the house.