Lineker’s brother jailed for tax fraud

THE millionaire brother of former football star Gary Lineker was jailed for two-and-a-half years yesterday after admitting a €317,000 tax fraud.

Sports bar owner Wayne Lineker smuggled cash into Britain using a money mule system of unsuspecting family and friends.

At first bundles of pesetas and escudos from pubs in Spain, Portugal and the Canary Islands were laundered into sterling at bureaux de change.

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