NI couple jailed for £4.6m tax fraud

Patrick Gerard Small and Mary Elizabeth Small, trading as Greystone Builders Merchants in Dungannon, failed to declare tax worth £4.6m over a period dating back to 1995. They used an offshore bank account in the Isle of Man and laundered money through property developments in order to dodge their taxes, building 23 houses in Northern Ireland, which remained empty, as well buying valuable antiques and jewellery. A search of the Smalls' main property recovered over £492,000 from safes which had not been declared as income. Investigators uncovered a recording of Small meeting a Manx b...