Businessmen who made over £750k by turning house into illegal car workshop fined £190k

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

The directors of two businesses who used a property illegally as a car workshop and storage area have been ordered to pay fines totalling £190,000.

They have been warned that if they fail to do so within three months they face being jailed. Ahmed Chohan, 55, and Muhammed Anzir, 29, both of Mullion Close in Stockport, were sentenced after admitting breaching planning regulations on a former residential property in Stockport Road, Levenshulme.

Two companies that the men were under control of were also sentenced at the hearing at Manchester Crown Court. As sole director of Chohan Properties Mcr Ltd, Mr Anzir was the effective freehold owner of 1 Eltham Street in Levenshulme.

But the property was being illegally used in connection with the nearby Car Sound Studio at 848 Stockport Road to fit vehicle audio systems – and in breach of a planning enforcement notice. READ MORE: Police cordons after stabbing with schools on lockdown Mr Anzir was ordered to pay a fine of £6,000 and has had £127,876.44 criminal benefit confiscated.