A DOCTOR jailed for three years for her part in a £1.4 million money laundering scam is now somewhere in India, Bradford Crown Court heard.

Manjula Salian, 49, of Nab Wood Drive, Nab Wood, Shipley, was sentenced in September 2014 after she was convicted of converting criminal property.

Her doctor husband, Zakir Ahmed, 47, was jailed for nine years for playing a leading role in a plot to send £3.5 million of criminal cash out of the country.

The couple, who qualified in India, had left their teenage daughter homeless because their house was being repossessed.

Ahmed absconded to Estonia, abandoning his wife and child, but was arrested and extradited back to the UK.

The plot involved setting up a series of fake companies to launder criminal money and transfer it abroad.

Yesterday, the court heard Salian had returned to India and it was not known where she was.

Prosecutor Kirsty Watson invited the court to continue with confiscation proceedings, but Salian's barrister, Nick Worsley, said that would be strongly resisted.

The case was adjourned until May 3 to decide whether the proceedings could go ahead in her absence.