{"id":27958,"date":"2019-01-04T13:23:32","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T13:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=27958"},"modified":"2019-01-04T13:31:14","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T13:31:14","slug":"zahid-khan-on-the-run-films-himself-with-rapper-at-vip-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/04\/zahid-khan-on-the-run-films-himself-with-rapper-at-vip-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Zahid Khan on the run films himself with rapper at VIP party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is\nthe instant millionaire fugitive Zahid Khan met American rapper Busta Rhymes at\nan exclusive VIP party in Dubai. Khan fled to Dubai before\nbeing jailed for 10 years in his absence for a \u00a3500,000 number plate fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khan after being found guilty of\nconspiracy to defraud over a \u00a3500,000 number plate fraud, met the singer at a\ncelebrity party over the Christmas period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fraudster\nKhan from Moseley, South Birmingham posted the video to his Facebook page and\nsaid: &#8220;Busta rhymes &amp; me chilling. Dubai is a land for all, everyone\nis welcome it\u2019s a land full of opportunities from owning your own business or\neven investing in your own home. It has a lot to offer!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Every time I visit Dubai, I have\nmet all sorts of people from business men to celebrities, in Dubai who also\nhave investment in Dubai it\u2019s a land where your dreams can come true. Come\nlet\u2019s make your dream a reality the only place to make it happen. #dubai&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the video Busta Rhymes speaks to the\ncamera saying he is out in Dubai making a movie and refers to Khan as &#8220;his\nbrother.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is the latest video to be posted by\nKhan since he fled Birmingham before his summer crown court case trial had\nended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khan had flew 3,500 miles to Dubai after\nskipping the country before his fraud trial came to an end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Birmingham conman jumped on a plane\nas the case concluded after being allowed to keep his passport during the\nprocedures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two brothers and a cousin were also\njailed for their part in the scam, which had targeted a UK lottery winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neither the trial judge at Birmingham Crown Court\u00a0nor at the Canterbury people smuggling case had asked for his passport to be handed in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hours after fleeing the country in June,\nserial criminal Khan posted a video on his Facebook page to the judge saying:\n&#8220;Sorry, I had no choice.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the astonishing 16-minute minute\nvideo, sunglasses-wearing Khan claimed he skipped the country as he had not had\na fair trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was convicted in his absence of conspiracy to commit\nfraud, perverting the course of justice, plus concealing and converting\ncriminal property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking directly to the camera and\ndirecting his comments to Judge Philip Parker, QC, he said: &#8220;I am making\nthis video to let you know I am very sorry, I did not want to do what I did,\nbut I I felt like I had no other choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Had I stayed in the UK, I was not\nhaving no justice and the only safest option I had was to leave this\ncountry.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the instant millionaire fugitive Zahid Khan met American rapper Busta Rhymes at an exclusive VIP party in Dubai. Khan fled to Dubai before being jailed for 10 years in his absence for a \u00a3500,000 number plate fraud. Khan after being found guilty of conspiracy to defraud over a \u00a3500,000 number plate fraud, met [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,3,112],"tags":[1389,1804,1803],"class_list":{"0":"post-27958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-latest","8":"category-news","9":"category-top-stories","11":"tag-busta-rhymes","12":"tag-zahid-khan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}