EFL
A computer expert who masterminded Britain’s biggest credit card fraud in an attempt to impress his better-paid girlfriend has been jailed for nine years. In the dock with Sunil Mahtani were would-be journalist Shahajan Miah and Shaidal Rahim, both 26, and from Enfield, north London, who pleaded guilty to one of the conspiracy counts. They were each jailed for four years. Sunil Mahtani, 26, felt so "frustrated" with the financial gulf between him and the merchant banker he loved that he teamed up with a gang of hi-tech crooks. Over the next three-and-a-half years, he downloaded details of nearly 9,000 credit cards and handed them to his partners in crime. Much of the highly-sensitive information was electronically encoded on to cloned credit cards to fund hundreds of illicit spending sprees in the UK and abroad. Most of the money went on buying large quantities of cigarettes on the continent.It is thought they were brought back to Britain and sold for huge profits.
I’d like to know if any of that "profit" ended up in Finsbury Park... |