The father of a convicted money launderer bought a £412,000 house with money he claimed he won with 123 prize-winning tickets in the Pakistan lottery.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) used a statistician to look into 81 year-old Malik Abdullah Farooq's claim he had won the money on the Pakistan Prize Bond Draw between July 2012 and February 2013.

The lucky streak would have been like wining the UK National Lottery jackpot 40 weeks running, according to the NCA statistician.

Farooq and his son Kashaf Ali Khan, 44, both made the claims when they were arrested in September and October 2014.

On Friday Khan, of Prospect Lane, Birmingham, was sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court to 22 months in jail after admitting he knew the money was the proceeds of crime, according to the NCA.

Khan had admitted money laundering by using criminal money to buy the house.

He also admitted a second money laundering count in relation to paying a £175,000 confiscation order - given after an earlier money laundering conviction in 2010 - with criminal cash.

Two money laundering charges against Farooq were left to lie on file, the NCA said.

Khan was caught handing over a bag to someone which contained £74,830 in cash in October 2008, the NCA said.

He later admitted money laundering offences and received a suspended prison sentence together with an order to complete 200 hours of unpaid work.

Khan was ordered to pay £175,000 in January 2012 because of the conviction.

The NCA said Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs have no records of him working and despite Khan having no recorded legitimate income, he paid off the £175,000 in cash within 12 months.

He has now admitted paying off the confiscation order using further criminal cash.

Money from Dubai had been paid into Farooq's Pakistan bank account and Khan used his father's funds to buy the Prospect Lane property in 2013, according to the NCA.

Farooq used black-market prize bond dealers in Pakistan a bid to fool investigators into believing he had won legitimate prizes.

Winners of the Pakistan state lottery have to wait several weeks to collect their winnings.

It means some punters are willing to sell their winning ticket to an agent for a lesser sum which they get immediately.

The black-market agents then sell on these tickets - for more than they are worth - to crooks needing to clean their criminal money who can then get prize organisers to issue payment in their name.

After sentencing, NCA senior investigating officer Phil Houghton said: "Offenders like Khan are at the centre of serious organised crime because they enable other high end crooks to move and clean their money."

He said Khan had admitted two counts of money laundering because of the "weight of evidence" against him, adding: "He thought that he had the perfect explanation if questioned about how he funded the house purchase.

"He and his father possessed documentation to support their story of being genuine winners of the Pakistan prize bond scheme.

"Khan didn't account for NCA investigators discovering the scheme's black market and proving he had used it to clean criminal money."

By Helen William