A man who was part of a car-cloning conspiracy has been jailed for failing to pay back more than £100,000 of his ill-gotten gains.

Padala Satti Reddy, 29, formerly of Hollybank Road, Great Horton , Bradford, was jailed for three and a half years in 2009 for his involvement in the £460,000 conspiracy to clone stolen top-of-the-range vehicles.

In October last year he was ordered to pay back £181,368.80 within six months or face prison.

Now he has been jailed again for 747 days by Leeds Magistrates, after £144,159.82 was found to be outstanding, along with £4,437.85 in interest.

Five other men were also jailed in 2009 for their parts in the conspiracy.

The scheme involved using forged documents to create false identities for stolen cars, claiming they had been imported.

A total of 17 cars involved had been stolen between 2006 and 2008 – the majority from West Yorkshire, with others from North Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Durham, Derbyshire, Lancashire and Cheshire. The cars included Volkswagen Golf GTIs and R32s, a range of Audis, a BMW 325 and two Range Rover Sports – the vehicles with the genuine identities were found to be in Australia and the US.

Reddy, now of Town Street, Armley, Leeds, benefited from a total of more than £625,000 as a result of his criminal activities, the October confiscation hearing at Leeds Crown Court was told.

He will owe the remaining £444,040 for the rest of his life, meaning any financial assets he should obtain in the future could be seized.

Sentencing the six men for their parts in the conspiracy in 2009, Judge Scott Wolstenholme said they were all intelligent and industrious young men, able to earn honest livings and make a positive contribution to society.

But he said they had been prepared to get involved in serious professional crime.

He told them: “The public is sick of car crime, resulting in the loss of cherished and valuable property.”