The mechanics of the net closing in on Jawad Khan, a second-hand car dealer in Co Tipperary handed down a 15 year disqualification from acting as a company officer, are unusual.  In 2020 the counter fraud arm of the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK contacted Myles Kirby, the liquidator of SJK Wholesale Ltd, Khan’s shuttered motor sales company. Set up in 2017 to tackle the roughly £1.27 billion annual cost of fraud, bribery and corruption the NHS unit informed Kirby of a money-laundering investigation involving SJK, and the alleged use of criminal property to fund the purchase of…

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