At his trial, the High Court in Edinburgh was told Ramzan, 40, began trading from a bedroom at his home in Broughty Ferry, with only a telephone, a fax machine and a computer to access the internet.
Often this meant learning to exploit the latest laptop, cell phone, fax, Internet and other computer and communications technologies that make possible the mobile economy.
"You'll see squishy balls flying around the office, " he says, adding that he is a pretty eccentric entrepreneur, often working out of a sport-utility vehicle retrofitted with a three-foot-long desk, two computer screens, a fax machine and shredder.