A FRAUDSTER who was jailed for eight years has now been ordered to pay back more than £100,000 from his ill-gotten gains.

Shazad Hussain, of Taylor Hill Road, Taylor Hill, was sent to prison in March last year after being convicted of a catalogue of crimes including possession of cocaine with intent to supply, obtaining money transfers by deception, fraud, and acquiring criminal property.

Hussain claimed he worked as a project manager earning £50,000 a year when he submitted bogus mortgage applications, but his criminal activities unravelled after a drugs raid on his home in August 2009.

Yesterday Hussain was back at Bradford Crown Court for a hearing under the Proceeds of Crime Act and Judge Jonathan Rose was told that Hussain’s benefit from criminal conduct had been assessed at almost £500,000.

Financial investigators have identified assets amounting to £112,215.10 and Judge Rose ordered Hussain to hand that sum over within six months or face a further 30 months behind bars.

Hussain’s lawyer Steven Milner indicated that the police had already seized about £25,000 in cash from his client on arrest and there was a similar sum available from bank accounts.

Hussain’s wife Vicki Chaukria, who was given a nine-month suspended jail term for one allegation of fraud relating to the re-mortgage of their home in October 2008, also appeared at court yesterday.

She was ordered to repay £3,750 or face two months in jail.