TWO members of a gang who were jailed for a digital TV scam must pay back a total of £170,000.

Three Blackburn men and a Preston man were sentenced to more than 17 years in May last year after they were found guilty of defrauding Virgin Media Ltd by selling illegally modified set-top boxes.

The scam enabled customers to receive paid-for digital channels for free.

At a Proceeds of Crime hearing at Preston Crown Court this week, Dilawer Dudhwala, 29, of Assheton Road, Blackburn, was told to pay Virgin £65,000 in compensation by August 30 or he would face an additional 18 months in jail on top of his existing 18 month sentence.

Salim Zinga, 41, of Duchy Avenue, Preston, who was jailed for four years, has to pay back £105,000 to Virgin by next February or face an extra two years.

Hearings against the other two members, Rafiq Dudhwala, 27, of Assheton Road, and Imran Khansia, 30, of Livingstone Road, both Blackburn, have been adjourned until September.

They are currently each serving six-year prison terms.

They were all jailed after a second trial which resulted from police raids in April 2008.

Officers seized 200 set-top boxes from four houses and two industrial units in Hamilton Street and George Street West.

Police later claimed that the gang’s activities were ‘only the tip of the iceberg’ in Lancashire.