EXCLUSIVE: Labour councillor and mosque leader hired illegal immigrants and dodged tax
A COUNCILLOR and mosque leader has been banned from being a company director for six years after he was found employing illegal immigrants at his business which failed to pay tax.
By Jon Austin
PUBLISHED: 07:13, Fri, Sep 9, 2016 | UPDATED: 07:44, Fri, Sep 9, 2016
Montaz Ali Azad, a Labour councillor on Oldham Council and trustee of the charity which runs Oldham Central Masjid and Islamic Centre, was caught by Home Office immigration officers employing three illegal workers at his industrial laundry firm in Ashton-under-Lyne in Tameside, Greater Manchester.
The employees did not have correct immigration papers and had not been registered with the tax man.
Investigators from the Home Office Immigration Enforcement unit and the Insolvency Ser5vice found that Azad failed to ensure his limited company Eurolinen UK Ltd correctly operated a Pay As You Earn Scheme, by failing to declare the workers to HMRC and accounting to the tax man for any deductions made from their wages.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/708605/EXCLUSIVE-Labour-councillor-and-mosque-leader-hired-illegal-immigrants-and-dodged-tax
