A CONMAN at the centre of an international fraud ring has been ordered to pay back more than £11m or face ten years behind bars.

Amram Braha, of Perth Road, Gants Hill, was sent to prison for ten months in March 2008 after more than 30,000 fake Burberry shoes were seized in a dawn raid on a warehouse in north London.

The haul was one of the biggest ever in the UK with investigators discovering that the Chinese-made shoes were being shipped from the United States for just 67p a pair.

But further probing by officers revealed Braha's company, Anavim Ltd, had a bank account in the Caribbean which was under investigation for money laundering and fraud.

Around £72m had passed through the off-shore account, in the Dutch Antilles, and Braha was identified as the sole signatory.

This evidence was put before Wood Green Crown Court on Monday, and Braha, who could not explain where the money was going, was ordered to pay back £10.7m in unpaid VAT and £354,000 from the fake shoes operation.

Sue McDaid, head of business regulation at Enfield Council, which carried out the investigation into Braha's financial affairs, described the judgment as a "hammer blow" to counterfeit operations across the world.

Braha has just six-months to come up with the cash or face a ten-year jail term.