Dubai court orders Briton to pay £1.1bn to Danish tax authorities in fraud case

Sanjay Shah has denied masterminding an elaborate tax fraud (Christopher Pike/AP)

A British man accused by Denmark of masterminding a massive tax fraud has been ordered by a Dubai court to pay Copenhagen’s tax authority 1.25 billion dollars (£1.1bn), court filings show.

The order by the Dubai Court of Appeal against Sanjay Shah comes as part of a civil case filed four years ago by Denmark’s tax authority, which has been pursuing him as part of their investigation into one of the country’s largest tax fraud cases.