A SCAMMER arrested in Spain has been ordered to pay back just £10 after defrauding vulnerable victims out of almost £1million.

Basildon's Paul Muldoon was jailed as part of a fraud gang which bragged about connections to the Beckham family in order to dupe victims.

David Beckham's shamed former brother-in-law, Darren Flood, has been ordered to pay back £190,000 of the illegal profits he made from a cruel 'boiler room' scam.

Muldoon, 35, was ordered to pay a nominal fee of £10 as he did not currently have any assets.

Muldoon was part of a gang of conmen jailed for a total of more than 20 years in January after using Flood's links to the former England football captain to gain the trust of pensioners.

Flood - who was married to Victoria Beckham's sister Louise Adams - was a director of The Commodities Link (TCL), which focused on 'high net worth clients' and discussed potential targets including former footballer Joe Cole's dad.

Muldoon, who regularly used pseudonyms during the course of the fraud, had “made great play of Darren Flood being David Beckham’s brother-in-law”, during a pitch to a victim who lost more than £62,000.

He was jailed in 2010 for fraud offences and fled the UK after being questioned about TCL’s activities.

He was arrested and extradited from Spain last year to face up to his crime after walking into a police station and handing himself in January 2018.

He had spent a couple of days in custody earlier in the month on suspicion of domestic violence against his wife, Rebecca Muldoon, who had subsequently gone missing.

Her body was later found on a beach in Marbella. He was in custody at the time of her death.

Now the gang have been ordered to pay back their ill-gotten gains.

The five men were all jailed for conspiracy to commit fraud by false representation for their part in the scam.

They were ordered to repay a total of £370,634.80 which had been identified in assets during a Proceeds of Crime hearing

Detective Inspector Matt Durkin, head of the Surrey Police's Economic Crime Unit, said: "These people destroyed their victims' lives without a second thought.

"They took life savings, left investors destitute and took away the confidence and independence of their elderly victims.

"They were professional criminals, essentially grooming the people they targeted over time, and thoroughly deserve to have each and every penny of their criminal gains that we've been able to identify taken from them."