A FERRARI-driving "millionaire pilot's" secret double life as a rich fraudster and people smuggler has finally caught up with him.
Zahid Khan, 38, is now behind bars after five years on the run living a double life and running a number of ludicrous scams.
From Moseley, Birmingham, he fled to Dubai after a £500,000 number plate scam and taunted police through social media.
He portrayed himself living a life of luxury, driving Ferraris, meeting world-famous celebrities, and being a philanthropist, according to BirminghamLive.
But behind it all was a number of crimes, including property crimes, fraud, and people smuggling.
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While on the run in Dubai, Khan had a Siberian Tiger cub, hung out with famous rapper Buster Rhymes, and bizarrely smashed a £30,000 Rolex.
When he smashed the watch he said: "Money is not the only thing in life if it’s materialistic things that make you happy then you will never be happy."
Six years later Khan is now holed up in prison, finally facing the justice he sought to avoid.
Years earlier back in Birmingham, Khan ran a supercar garage that did valeting, tyre-fitting, mechanical work, and sold motors and was by all accounts successful.
But he fell victim to crimes that appeared to send his life into a tailspin.
In 2014, Khan was targeted by his friend for extortion and blindfolded and held for seven hours.
In 2016, he also faced an arson attack on the business that saw £100,000 of damage done.
Also that year he was found guilty for crimes in a rental property he owned, fined thousands and ordered to do community service.
Khan sought to double-down on the successful image he portrayed for himself and posed with famous boxers, including Floyd Mayweather, and expensive Ferraris.
Khan said: "Floyd is a man full of motivation. We just hit it off and have become good friends. He is very humble and not like he is portrayed in the media. He said to me ‘money does not give you respect, you have to earn it."
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One photo of him outside Birmingham Magistrates Court with a white Ferrari 458 Spider must have rankled cops as months later they impounded it and then destroyed it for a lack of insurance.
In 2017 he donated £1,000 to a funeral for a baby, but months later it was revealed police had charged him with 14 offences for a £500,000 number plate scam.
Khan represented himself in Birmingham Crown Court and on the day of his closing speech fled the UK for Dubai.
He was convicted of the scam despite being absent.
In December that year, it was revealed that Khan had tried to smuggle migrants into the UK in the back of a lorry while on a business trip to Europe.
In Dubai he lived an extravagant lifestyle out of the arms of the law.
He said: "Scars don’t come easy they come and stay for life every scar has a story behind it. We been bought up in a jungle we can handle any habitat you leave us in."
But that caught up with him when UK police applied to the UAE to extradite Khan.
He announced that he was willing to come back to the UK and that he was also set to release an album.
He responded by releasing a video of him flying a plane and sued West Midlands Police for destroying the white Ferrari 458.
But as the net tightened, he appeared via video link in Birmingham County Court before fleeing to Turkey
He was arrested by Turkish police in November 2023 and brought back to the UK charged with failure to surrender.
In April this year he appeared in court via video link from prison and pleaded guilty, six years after he had gone on the run.
