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Insurance Fraud Bureau director Glen Marr has highlighted the organisation’s successful partnership with police following the latest in a long line of ‘crash for cash’ convictions.
Marr wasted no time in teaming up with Metropolitan Police Service DCI Nick Chalmers in warning members of the public to remain vigilant to instances of fraud following today’s sentencing of seven men at Harrow Crown Court for their roles in three bogus claims totaling more than £50 000.
He said: “This is another example of the ability of the insurance industry, Police and IFB, to successfully work together to bring those concerned with organised insurance fraud, to justice.
“Individuals who take part in such fraudulent activity, however small their involvement, face the very real risk of being detected, prosecution, imprisonment and living with the personal consequences of having a criminal record.”
The message comes after the court how Ali Saleem Akhter and Jamshid Ahmadzai were the main players in an organised gang who made money from induced collisions.
A third 39 year old member of the gang, wanted in connection with all three claims, remains at large, while the other four men were lured into the fraud by gang members, allowing their vehicles to be used, or submitting false claims in return for money, usually a couple of thousand pounds.
DCI Chalmers added: “The Met is actively pursuing organized criminal networks that seek out car owners and induce them into allowing their vehicles to be part of insurance fraud.
“In the past 18 months more than 100 people have been arrested by the MPS as part of numerous investigations in relation to vehicle insurance fraud.
“Many of them have never been in trouble with the police before but are lured in the misheld belief that there are no risks and the money is easy to make. They will now have a criminal record which will affect their job and other prospects.”
Medico Legal News Source: PostOnline
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