Dubai playboy fraudster who flogged pretend Covid unfavorable check is jailed

A PLAYBOY fraudster has been jailed after the Mail uncovered him promoting pretend unfavorable coronavirus certificates.

Danyal Sajid, 25, from Bradford paid no regard to the potential ‘disease and death’ he could have brought on by promoting the counterfeit paperwork which had been required for Britons to journey overseas throughout the pandemic, a decide stated.

The Mail revealed his felony operation after he offered one of many bogus certificates – which he overtly marketed on social media – to an undercover reporter for £75.

The reporter later met him on vacation in Dubai the place he agreed to promote one other 11 paperwork for £825 – and boasted how he had been blowing his illicit earnings on luxurious automobiles and a prostitute.

Sajid was arrested on 10 December 2020, 5 days after our story ran, and after a prolonged authorized course of to determine English Law had jurisdiction over the ‘cross borders’ crime, finally pleaded responsible to deliberately encouraging or aiding fraud.

Danyal Sajid, 25, has been jailed after the Mail uncovered him promoting pretend unfavorable coronavirus certificates

Mr Sajid (dealing with the digicam) assembly the Daily Mail investigator the place he agreed to promote 11 promoting pretend unfavorable coronavirus certificates for £825

Jailing Sajid for eight months at Bradford Crown Court this week, Recorder Ian Mullarky stated Sajid was ready to promote a lot of pretend certificates for revenue.

He stated the journey restrictions had been put in place to guard folks’s well being.

‘You actively undermined that system, entirely,’ stated the decide.

‘What you did was quite deliberate.

‘You sold certificates without any regard of the potential harm they could do – the spread of disease and possible death.’

The defence barrister had advised the courtroom that Sajid, who’s now married and works as a taxi driver, had been struggling monetary difficulties on the time and ‘saw this as an easy way out.’

But the decide advised him that his declare was ‘difficult to reconcile with you being on holiday in Dubai at the time.’

Sajid had advised the undercover reporter that in only a few days in Dubai he had employed a Range Rover, Mercedes G-Wagon, Mercedes GTC, Mercedes GTS and Mercedes S63, and hoped to hire a Lamborghini earlier than he returned dwelling.

Other on-line footage confirmed him posing at a rooftop nightclub within the glamorous Five Palm Jumeirah lodge.

He bragged about spending £500 in an evening on the venue and in addition described choosing up a Spanish prostitute, who he stated regarded like an ‘Instagram model’ and who he paid £300 for the evening.

Mr  Sajid leaving the assembly with the investigator after agreeing to provide a pretend doc  for a traveller he was advised had already examined constructive

The scammer stated the loophole was straightforward to use as a result of it’s nearly unimaginable for airways and border employees to test if paperwork are real.

En path to Dubai he posted an image of himself on his aircraft with the pretend certificates, writing: ‘For those who didn’t consider it labored. Adiosssssss..’

Sajid is the third felony to be jailed within the final seven months following exposes by the Mail Investigations Unit.

Albanian drug lord Selamet Mehmetaj was locked up for four-and-a-half years in August 2023 for operating hashish factories staffed by unlawful immigrants that distributed medication value hundreds of thousands of kilos a 12 months.

And in November folks smuggler Muhamed Alievski was jailed following an undercover exposé of gangs serving to overseas fugitives flee the UK.