A FORMER award-winning Bradford solicitor, who laundered criminal money for a £10 million drugs baron, has had almost £1,000 confiscated from him.

Shadab Khan has been ordered by a judge to pay back £979.98, at a proceeds of crime hearing in Leeds.

He was given seven days to pay and will have to serve seven days imprisonment if he fails to do so.

Khan, then aged 38 and living at Staveley Road, Nab Wood, Bradford, was jailed for four years in October 2009, after he was convicted of one charge of money laundering and two of failing to disclose a suspicion of money laundering.

The solicitor, who set up a legal business in the wake of the 2001 Manningham riots and was named professional of the year at the Yorkshire Asian Business Convention, carried out property conveyances for multi-million pounds drug dealer Khalid Malik.

Malik, of Guiseley, who ran a luxury car business in Bradford, was jailed for 25 years in 2005 for masterminding a conspiracy to supply heroin valued at £7m.

Five years later, Malik, who had plotted to flood the Bradford district with heroin, was ordered to hand over more than £10m at a confiscation hearing.

Khan either knew or suspected that Malik was putting cash - totalling £593,000 - into properties.

Jailing him in 2009, Judge Sally Cahill QC said Khan had hidden behind community practices and had brought disgrace upon himself. She said it was incomprehensible why he had committed the offences, beyond either "sheer greed or a naivety that went beyond stupidity."

And the judge said it was "astonishing for a man of his purported good character" that he did not give evidence at his trial.

His barrister told the court that the impact on Khan's career and reputation would be "profound, far-reaching and long-lasting," and his career as a solicitor was over.

At Malik's confiscation hearing, it was said that £3.6m of assets from his criminality had been identified and placed under restraint, including an £88,000 Lamborghini Gallardo car, an £860,000 apartment in Dubai, and two plots of land in Bulgaria valued at £600,000.