One of Jeremy Corbyn’s parliamentary candidates was forced to surrender thousands of pounds in cash after the UK Border Agency concluded he was trying to smuggle it out of the country for the purpose of “unlawful conduct”, including “tax evasion”.
Ibrahim Dogus, 39, a Kurdish kebab tycoon and personal friend of Corbyn’s, is Labour’s candidate to replace Tom Watson in the seat of West Bromwich East, and has said he is campaigning on a platform to end “poverty, privatisation and tax avoidance”.
The British Kebab Awards founder became embroiled in a tax-evasion investigation in 2011 after giving his aunt wads of cash from his restaurant empire and asking her to take them on a flight from Heathrow to Istanbul.
Officials from the UK Border