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'Crash for cash' fraudster sentenced

Published on 22 Oct 2009 under category: legal

A man who carried out car crash fraud crimes has been jailed for four-and-a-half years.

Mohammed Patel, a former civil servant, was found to have taken part in a 'crash for cash' scheme.

This involved creating road traffic accidents by braking suddenly at junctions, causing other drivers to crash into him.

These incidents were staged so that insurance fraud crimes could be carried out.

It is thought that Mr Patel took part in at least 92 of these incidents, committing fraud crimes worth £1.6 million.

The scam was detected by workers in an office building who noticed Mr Patel being involved in several accidents in the same location.

In other news, earlier this week a City lawyer was found guilty of a £7.4 million fraud.

Kate Johns was revealed to have scammed money from the Tokyo Mitsubishi Bank, from which she worked as the head of legal, with the funding then being invested in an airline.

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