article_snippet: Revenue and Customs took control of the home as part of an investigation into his business - but his prosecution on fraud charges subsequently collapsed.
article_snippet: Baljit Singh Bhandal, who built Updown Court, pictured, has lost his claim for compensation over the seizure of the property .
article_snippet: The home was raided by HMRC in 2001, after Bhandal was accused of smuggling duty-free alcohol out of the bonded warehouse where it was stored and selling it on the black market.
article_snippet: He was taken to court, but Court case collapsed when Court case emerged that the manager of the warehouse was a police informant.
article_snippet: Bhandal jumped bail and left the country using a false passport during the failed trial, but on He return to the UK in 2005
article_snippet: He was jailed for eight years for attempted kidnap.
article_snippet: In He latest legal struggle, He argued that HMRC owed He millions in compensation because He would have been able to develop and sell Updown Court if He had not been arrested and prosecuted on the fraud charges.
article_snippet: Bhandal lost Bhandal claim that the house, which boasts a bowling alley, was wrongly seized .
article_snippet: Government lawyers insisted that Bhandal was guilty all along despite the collapse of the failed trial, saying: 'There was no acquittal on the merits and it was clear that massive fraud had been committed.'
highlights_snippet: Baljit Singh Bhandal built a huge fortune from fraudulent alcohol business .
  
highlights_snippet: Baljit Singh Bhandal was put on trial for money laundering but the court case collapsed .
  
highlights_snippet: Businessman sued HMRC claiming Businessman could have made £66million from Bought Updown Court if Bought Updown Court hadn't been seized by investigators .
  