Two postmen have been jailed for laundering more than £1 million stolen in a huge international online fraud and blackmail plot.
Shaker Javaid gave up his job delivering letters to set up a claims handling business which he used as the front for his money laundering operation.
He handled money from internet based frauds carried out all around the world and recruited former workmate Alex Stocks to set up another account so he could launder even more cash.
The pair were trapped by a complex investigation by police in Exeter after a foreign student was tricked out of a £300 deposit for a flat in Southernhay which did not exist…
A German woman was tricked into sending explicit pictures of herself to an online suitor and these were used blackmail her out of £30,000. When she stopped paying the fraudsters threatened to kill her children.
Businessmen in India, Africa and the USA were swindled out of sums as high as £77,000 by advance fee frauds in which they believed they would receive loans, mystery inheritances or £1 million lottery prizes.
One victim was conned out of £7,771 after being asked to use her bank account to transfer cash for a charity.
The accounts run by Javaid’s two Flashclaims companies laundered £983,000 from 172 victims over two years and Stocks’ Global Supplies account handled £219,000 from 56 victims in the space of just four months.
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