Crooks raked in £225k by making 21 bogus insurance coverage claims for Eighties Ford Escorts
Two fraudsters who pocketed over £225,000 by making phoney insurance coverage claims for Eighties Ford Escort RS Turbos have been despatched to jail.
Jason Sallis, 52, and Amandeep Gill, 35, have been a part of a gang that made 21 faux claims between 2009 and 2017. During their eight-year con, they repeatedly claimed their traditional Eighties Ford Escort RS Turbos had been nicked.
They made insurance coverage claims of between £10,000 and £25,000 every time, backed up with counterfeit gross sales invoices.
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In fact, the automobiles had been offered or scrapped by their final reliable homeowners. The defendants used doctored photographs and false plates on real high-value RS Turbos they owned to create the phantasm the stolen ones have been in good nick.
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They would then use bogus gross sales invoices and fraudulently obtained MOT certificates to insure the autos for a excessive Agreed Value coverage. The scammers would get insurance coverage in place, wait a number of months after which submit faux theft experiences.
Suspicions have been raised and triggered a police investigation resulted in 42 costs being made in opposition to 19 defendants. All 19 criminals have been convicted of fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud together with ringleaders Sallis and Gill.
Sallis, from Blondvil Street in Coventry, was discovered responsible of eight counts of fraud and jailed for 3 years at Warwick Crown Court.
Gill, from Corbison Close in Warwick, was discovered responsible of conspiracy to commit fraud and given a 32-month jail sentence.
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Detective Constable Alison Roberts, from Warwickshire Police, commented: “This was an elaborate scheme and for those eight years, those involved were enjoying payouts courtesy of everyone who pays for car insurance.
“It is a disgrace that law-abiding residents must pay out extra on their insurance coverage premiums as a result of the likes of Sallis, Gill and their associates have been prepared to work collectively to create fictitious claims.” she added.
“I hope this sentence serves as a warning to others concerned in these kinds of scams.”
“Those concerned in frauds like this must be beneath no phantasm that they might face a custodial sentence, a prison report and having to pay again what they’ve taken,” she warned.
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