A fraudster who duped the taxpayer out of hundreds of thousands of pounds has been allowed to keep his two luxury yachts after a dirty money probe.
Joseph Quinn was jailed earlier this year for stealing nearly £280,000 from HM Revenue and Customs - after buying one of his vessels from the government body.
Quinn touted himself as a philanthropist who climbed Kilimanjaro to raise money for a children's cancer charity. But he was actually a criminal who cooked the books while director of four Scottish firms, netting £279,329.79 by submitting bogus claims for VAT repayments.Quinn, 64, bought the twin-masted Isolda, which is valued at £302,000, from HMRC at an auction after it had been seized during a drug bust.He also had over £90,000 in bank
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