The stunning Brambles mansion had a market value of £1million, but Sadit Sabir allegedly snapped it up for a discounted rate from lotto winner Roy Gibney.
The mansion was just one of the extravagant ways Sabir spent the money he brought in from his three chip shops before he was jailed.
Court records show Sabir, 38, used £618,000 in cash to buy the house, which came complete with its own games room and a fishing lake.
Sabir was jailed for three-and-a-half years on Friday after a lengthy police investigation into tax fraud.
Grimsby Crown Court were told how Sabir had benefited from £1.4m of unpaid tax and VAT between 2009 and 2015.
Other extravagances reportedly included a top of the range £60,000 Mercedes for his then-wife.
When police raided his home they also allegedly discovered another £63,000 in cash stuffed inside a suitcase.
In an attempt to keep the property sale from his rap sheet – his largest single tax fraud – Sabir reportedly transferred the mansion to his father’s name. There is no suggestion the father was in on the crime.
The charge under the Proceeds of Crime Act, says: “On 21/2/2014 at Grimsby…concealed, disguised, converted, transferred or removed criminal property, namely £618,000, by means of using it in the purchase of The Brambles, Barnoldby-Le-Beck, Grimsby.
Gibney had bought the house shortly after his £7.5m win in 1998 for £375,000 and invested heavily in the property.
Land records show the mansion was sold against last October for £1.1m.
Sabir’s chippys were the Seaway in Cleethorpes and St James Fish Restaurant and Fish and Chik in Grimsby.
Sabir’s lawyer his two remaining fish and chip shops, Seaway and St James Fish Restaurant, would likely both close as a result of his sentence.
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