A GREEDY landlord is behind bars after confessing to a huge benefit fraud.

Nisar Khan pocketed £60,000 in handouts despite owning around 14 flats, several shops and property in Pakistan.

Khan repeatedly duped benefits chiefs into thinking he was broke, while raking in thousands of pounds a year in rent.

Even after being rumbled he still maintained he was hard-up, claiming his extensive portfolio belonged to a mysterious twin brother called Ahmed Jee.

Khan, 54, handed over suspicious-looking documents to try and support his ridiculous lie.

But the dad-of-six finally admitted his guilt at Glasgow Sheriff Court. He was remanded until sentencing next month for what a sheriff branded as a "gross and calculated deception".

The scam began in 1997 when Khan successfully applied for income support and council tax benefit.

He claimed he and his wife Shakila had little income, but actually he owned a string of flats in the city's South Side and business premises in Newmains, Lanarkshire.

Khan also had property in Karachi and Clifton in Pakistan along with 22 acres of land.

He then made a series of similar bogus claims, using up to 21 different names.

But a review of benefits being paid in the city prompted surveillance on Khan between September 2001 and March 2002.

The court heard he was spotted working in a Glasgow cash and carry and at his Seven Seas chip shop in Manse Road, Newmains. Staff at premises next door said they also paid rent to Khan.

Staff at the letting agency he used said he collected rent using the name Ahmed Jee.

The conman, of Titwood Road, Glasgow had a bizarre explanation Ahmed was his twin.

A benefits source said: "He turned up at the agency wearing a wig and claiming to be his twin."

Khan admitted fradulently receiving £60,000 between 1997 and 2002.

Sheriff Craig Scott warned Khan he faces a jail term next month as well as a further hearing under the Proceeds of Crime Act.