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Carousel fraud mastermind who fled to Dubai must repay £90m

The ringleader of one of the UK’s biggest carousel tax frauds that involved mobile phones must hand back more than £90 million, following a court ruling.

  • Staff Reporter
  • 1 September 2025
  • News, Operators

Lyca Mobile loses £51 million VAT appeal over Plan Bundle pricing dispute

 Major MVNO Lyca Mobile has lost a £51 million VAT appeal over the sale of its voice, text, and data bundles between 2012 and 2019. A 55-page judgment by the First Tier Tribunal Tax Chamber disagreed with Lyca’s argument that VAT only became payable when the bundle data was used. Lyca had claimed that VAT

  • Staff Reporter
  • 1 August 2024
  • News

HMRC staff working from home lose £1 million of mobile phones and laptops – Telegraph report

Work-from-home HMRC staff have lost £1m of mobile phones and laptop computers equipment reports Matthew Davis for the Telegraph HMRC staff working from home have lost £1 million worth of laptops and mobiles, according to new data released by the Telegraph. The figures show that approximately 10 mobile phones and two laptops go missing each

  • Staff Reporter
  • 21 May 2024
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Mobile phone VAT fraudster has prison sentence doubled to more than 16 years

Sarah Panitzke to spend more years in prison for failing to repay £2.45 million VAT revenue stolen in massive mobile phone carousel fraud. A major mobile phone VAT fraudster has had her prison sentence doubled to more than 16 years for not repaying the money stolen.  Sarah Panitzke (main picture above) was charged in 2010

  • Staff Reporter
  • 24 March 2023
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True Telecom redundancies as firm faces administration

Dozens of job losses follow HMRC winding up order and £85,000 fine for misleading calls

  • Staff Reporter
  • 7 November 2017
  • MVNOs, News

Lycamobile faces being struck off UK company register

Ethnic MVNO failed to file accounts for last year, according to Companies House

  • Staff Reporter
  • 27 January 2016
  • News

Four men get 27-year sentences for £28m phone and chip fraud

Kent-based gang used company for import and export VAT fiddle

  • Staff Reporter
  • 23 April 2014
  • Dealers, Distributors, Manufacturers, MVNOs, News, Operators, Retailers

2013: Year in Review

A ‘record’ 12 months of biggest-ever, fastest, thinnest, counterfeit, stolen and every other type of mobile phone

  • Staff Reporter
  • 2 January 2014
  • News

HMRC cannot appeal £2.4m VAT decision

Permission to appeal the decision that saw Unistar Group and Unistar Trading win back withheld VAT repayments rejected by the court

  • Staff Reporter
  • 21 October 2013
  • News

Law firms may litigate to stop box breakers from going bust

Lawyers issue legal threat to HMRC following changes to rules on VAT repayments to international businesses buying batches of handsets in the UK

  • Staff Reporter
  • 20 June 2013
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