{"id":51035,"date":"2026-04-21T15:35:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/vat-fraudsters-who-splurged-on-gold-and-diamonds-jailed\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:35:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:35:37","slug":"vat-fraudsters-who-splurged-on-gold-and-diamonds-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/vat-fraudsters-who-splurged-on-gold-and-diamonds-jailed\/","title":{"rendered":"VAT fraudsters who splurged on gold and diamonds jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>Leslie Thompson, Graeme Cullen,  Graham Newall and Martin Lang invoiced firms for VAT for payroll services &#8211; but kept the money.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c87wv38rdz0o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leslie Thompson, Graeme Cullen, Graham Newall and Martin Lang invoiced firms for VAT for payroll services &#8211; but kept the money. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[5007,14738,3513,940,14739,14420],"class_list":["post-51035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk","tag-diamonds","tag-fraudsters","tag-gold","tag-jailed","tag-splurged","tag-vat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51037,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51035\/revisions\/51037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}