Fraudster told to pay back £1.6m

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September 04, 2008

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Raymond Nevitt

A PLAYBOY fraudster on the run since 2006 has been ordered to pay back £1.6m he made through crime.

If Raymond Nevitt, thought to be lying low in Spain, doesn't pay up he'll face nearly 14 years in jail - when police finally get their hands on him.

Nevitt, 43, from Whitefield, Bury, vanished on bail after being sentenced to three years and nine months for a complex business fraud involving more than £3.2m.

Now, following a proceeds of crime hearing in his absence in Manchester, Judge Martin Steiger ordered him to pay back £1.6m within six months or face a further decade in jail when police catch up with him.

Police hope the prospect of a lengthy sentence will prompt him to return home to face the music. They say if he doesn't he will be forever looking over his shoulder because international arrest warrants have been issued against him.

DC Julian King said: "This fraud didn't just affect banks. Dozens of staff lost their jobs as a result of Nevitt's crimes and several small companies also failed as a result of what he did.

"The investigation is not closed and we are still keen to hear from anyone who may know where he is."

Nevitt ran a company called Ravelle and a series of associated businesses called PC2Go and Just Printers based in Trafford Park.

The con involved getting banks and lending institutions to give out massive loans on the back of fictional business transactions.

The court was told he corrupted junior members of staff to go along with the scam.

Described as leading a `vulgar and ostentatious' existence, Nevitt spent the money living the high life, entertaining in top restaurants, buying cars and rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous.

In 2000 he was featured in a television documentary about the Gumball Rally, giving an interview to presenter Ruby Wax after his white Ferrari somersaulted out of control in Latvia.

With money no object, he paid for the crumpled wreckage to be shipped back where it was paraded in Manchester city centre on a lorry, then parked outside one of his favourite nightspots on Deansgate.

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Still Fedup, Mersyside (04/09/2008 at 14:14)

and they want £1 back off the drug smugglers !!!!
He is a thief not a killer like the drug runners.

JTC Formerley JimC (04/09/2008 at 18:02)

Playboy my backside.

He has got a face like a plasterers radio for gods sake.

Pippa, Manchester (04/09/2008 at 19:34)

You sure he's only 43? Or is that a disguise?

Pandora (05/09/2008 at 15:07)

No doubt he´ll hide the loot in off-shore companies, and then show up skint. That´s the usual scenario.

Black Flag (05/09/2008 at 15:40)

Still Fedup: "and they want £1 back off the drug smugglers !!!! He is a thief not a killer like the drug runners."

Somebody buying drugs is making their own choice. A thief takes somebody's property against their will.

I'd rather thieves got the more severe punishment, on the basis that I can choose not to take drugs, but I can't choose not to be a victim of theft.

this is how I see it (05/09/2008 at 17:18)

What an idiot! He could have served his time by now.

Hamish Macbeth, Whitefield (05/09/2008 at 21:00)

"Police hope the prospect of a lengthy sentence will prompt him to return home to face the music"

I bet it doesn't !!

Still Fedup, Merseyside (06/09/2008 at 00:58)

Black Flag: Your right you can say no to drugs but when you lose somebody to drugs...
Theft seems pretty tame. and yes I have had my home robbed, I have been attacked on my way home from work what they took is nothing compared to life itself.

Allan Bates (08/09/2008 at 05:52)

I have never heard such utter rubbish, Istley The Farrari was bought personally after taking a second mortgage on his home which was up to date nothing to do with his company. and secondley The Living room Restaraunt Sponsered the Car during the gumball rally the side of the car. These facts can be checked.This guy is no con man, He tried to keep his business going to keep his staff in jobs, instead of going banckrupt two years earlier/He gave jobs to people that were struggling and could not get jobs. And some of those people stole from him. these are facts. The whole thing got way out of hand. And the first sentance was light.as a sprat to catch a mackrel. There is no justice. and people that kill old folks walk after one year. The first case Had absolutley nothing to do with him. And the ones that pleaded guilty wrote a letter to that effect, and it was never shown in evidence, And they never served a day, The papers said he used company credit cards for his own personal use. This is total rubbish as well. the company credit cards had his own personel guarentee. And because of this he was made personally banckrupt and lost his home. How many times can one person be hanged for the same offence. He has already paid for it by loosing his home. and how can a civelmatter become a criminal matter. I know for a fact he is not a con man and he is not planning his next scam. and he is absolutley penniless.He is living on charity from friends.

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