A DISGRACED lettings agent who was barred for life after scamming dozens of tenants is enjoying the sun-soaked high life more than a decade later.

Allan Langley Smith left at least 40 former customers out of pocket after his Hadleys Letting and Estate Agents collapsed in 2004 and it is believed he headed to Spain.

Now former victims have contacted The Argus sickened by what they see as the former Brighton businessman “flaunting his wealth” in numerous Facebook photos revealing a millionaire’s lifestyle.

Mr Langley Smith was slapped with a lifetime ban by the Office of Fair Trading in 2004 after he was found to have misled customers with false bids from fictitious interested parties in an investigation by Which? magazine.

He had founded the firm in 1996 and expanded two years later following the collapse of a rival firm.

His offices in Queen’s Road and Western Road were raided by bailiffs in April 2004 while up to 40 tenants complained to police and Brighton and Hove City Council trading standards that rent payments they had made were not reaching their landlords.

Many more victims were estimated at the time.

A year before the meltdown of his company, Mr Langley Smith sold his home in Chichester Drive East, Saltdean, to finance a move to Alicante in Spain and it appears the 51-year-old is still enjoying his place in the sun with a new home near Valencia.

Numerous Facebook posts by the businessman apparently show him soaking up the sun all year round on beaches, enjoying poolside drinks of champagne, beer and red wine and boasting about the unseasonally warm weather while out-of-pocket former clients face the cold back home in Brighton.

When The Argus contacted Mr Langley Smith last month to ask whether he had any regrets about the incidents more than a decade ago, he turned his Facebook profile to private and then days later he deleted it all together.

One former victim said: “It’s quite sick to see him flaunting his wealth on Facebook with boasts and photos of his many extravagant parties.

“Lots of the people he flies over there are his friends and family from Brighton.

“He just lives the life of Riley, totally unashamedly.”