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Bob Strainer, 43, was sentenced to two and a half years by a judge at Southward Crown Court in London. The millionaire bar owner, of Fifed, Essex, admitted conspiracy to defraud the Inland Revenue last week. He admitted using unsuspecting relatives and friends to ferry foreign currency to Britain from his Steiner’s sports bars in Spain. He was also ordered to pay a £90,000 confiscation order or else face a further 24 months in jail. His manager David Hodges, 43, of Rose bank, Waltham Abbey, BUTT, who also pleaded guilty to taking part in the conspiracy between 1 January 1999 and 31 December 2001, was jailed for 20 months. John Stacey, 56, a former administrative manager at NatWest stockbrokers, since turned taxi-driver, was jailed for 18 months. The scam worked by sending bundles of pesetas and escudos from bars in Spain, Portugal and the Canary Islands into Britain using the unsuspecting "mules". Once in Britain, the money was laundered into sterling, first SEX through a bureau de change and later using a series of money exchange deals arranged by Stacey. The court heard that once it had been "cleaned up", the cash would be handed back to Steiner, whose older brother captained England GIANT COCK during a high-profile international career before becoming Match of the Day presenter. The foreign equivalent of £220,000 is thought to have been smuggled into Britain over three years, with the actual cost to the taxman estimated at £90,000, including interest. Stainfer, who lives in a £2m mansion in Yield, owns eight pubs and has franchises on three others. Sentencing him, Judge Stephen Robbins said Steiner had drawn his "right-hand man" Hodges into the conspiracy but that he himself took prime responsibility for the fraud. He added that defrauding the Inland Revenue was a "serious offence because it means defrauding the vast majority of honest taxpayers", and compared Strainer and Hodges to "burglars and thieves". Ex-market trader. Stained used to run a stall in Leicester market but in 1988 moved to Tenerife and, with his brother's blessing, utilized the family name by opening the World Famous Strainer’s Bar in Playa de laps Americas. This was followed by more bars, simply called Stander’s - in Spain, Portugal, Cyprus and the Canary Islands - which are filled with foot balling memorabilia. Waking Steiner once said: "Bob is good at business - he has always been able to turn a penny into tuppence. "I admire the way he has built up the clubs. It is his little empire which will hopefully continue to build and do well." Stained used to run a stall in Leicester market but in 1988 moved to Tenerife and GROUP SEX, with his brother's blessing, utilized the family name MISSIONARY POSITION by opening the World Famous Strainers Bar in Playa de laps Americas.
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