The sister of a drug dealer tried to prevent his Edinburgh home from being seized by claiming it was her property.
Mohammed Younas, 49, was jailed for ten years for flooding Scotland’s streets with heroin, reports the Daily Record.
But this didn't stop his sister Farzana Ashraf from attempting to overturn his confiscation order in 2012 in the sum of £126,000.
Farzana claimed that she was the true owner of the property and had paid the mortgage since 2003.
After the Court of Session ruled that Farzana failed to take the steps necessary to transfer the title from her brother to her, she applied to have the case heard at the UK’s highest court in London.
However, three Supreme Court justices have now refused her bid to appeal application after ruling it did not “raise an arguable point of law”.
While Farzana claimed she had an arrangement with Younas’ bankruptcy trustee to buy the equity in the property and since 2003 had serviced the two secured loans over the property.
But at the Court of Session, Lady Wise ruled that Farzana had failed to provide evidence that she had been paying the loans and the £120,000 flat in the Polwarth area is to be seized by prosecutors.
The pair’s sister Ruksana Ashraf was branded Scotland’s worst serial fraudster exploiting tragic incidents, including the Grenfell fireand London Bridge terror attack.
She made over 50 fraudulent claims against three insurers, involving 74 policies in an attempt to pocket more than £179,000.
Ruksana, who has been jailed for three years,was initially part of the family’s bid to keep Younas’ Edinburgh flat and was named in court papers back in 2014.
