A Greater Manchester tycoon who made a fortune selling fake Viagra tablets has been ordered to pay back more than £14 million or face 10 years in jail.

Martin Hickman, 52, lived in a four-bedroom farmhouse in Ashton-Under-Lyne, owned a property in Marbella, Spain and paid £2.5 million for a riverside Chelsea apartment in west London.

Hickman also drove a top-of-the-line Range Rover with a number plate bearing his initials, and a Bentley with a number plate L13 RGE.

The former bankrupt businessman funded his luxury lifestyle by selling millions of pounds worth of unlicensed Viagra-like erectile dysfunction drugs over the internet.

Investigators found that his website, MSH World Traders, had a turnover of £6.1 million in just three years and made him a profit of £3.4 million.

But some of the pills he was buying from India and selling to clients all over Europe were fakes, made to look like the licensed Viagra product, and others were not legal to sell in the UK.

Hickman, of Lily Lanes, Ashton-under-Lyne, was jailed for two years in 2009, following a criminal investigation by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).

Hickman claims he now has no assets and is ‘Hard Up’.

He was sentenced to a further 22 months in prison in January 2011 for Contempt of Court after he tried to obtain a passport by deception and for selling a property in breach of a court restraint order. He is not currently serving a jail sentence.

At Southwark Crown Court on Friday, Hickman was found to have benefited by £15,427,850.28 from his criminal enterprise. He was ordered to repay £14,407,850.28 within six months or face a further 10 years in prison and still be liable for the order.

Detective Chief Inspector Neil Ashton, head of the NWRART, said: “This case sends out a clear message to organised criminals that law enforcement agencies, working in partnership, will continue to pursue those involved in serious crime.”