Saudi exile’s house seized for non-payment of taxes

Armed British police officers patrol near 10 Downing Street, in central London, in this July 15, 2016 photo. (AFP)

RIYADH: Tax authorities in Britain have seized the £650,000 house of 69-year-old Mohammed Al-Massari for non-payment of taxes, according to a website.
The British Daily Mail reported that Al-Massari, who has been living in Britain since the early 1990s, was accused of pocketing hundreds of thousands of pounds from former Libyan strongman Muammar Qaddafi to target Saudi personalities.
The British newspaper said that the high court has ordered Al-Massari to vacate his house on Aug. 18 so that it can be put to sale to pay tax on cash he allegedly received between 2002 and 2004, which investigators believed where smuggled into Britain by Libyan agents who were then looking for Saudi exiles willing to return to their country stage attacks against then Crown Prince Abdullah.
The order of the high court has been handed over to the accused and a copy of it sent to the national crime branch, and security agencies of Britain, to implement and evict him from the house if he refuses. He will be held accountable for any harm that he causes.