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10/09/2003
Credit card fraud trio jailed
Three fraudsters who swiped £2.2 million in Britain’s biggest credit card scam have been jailed.
Sunil Mahtani, 26, from Watford in Hertsfordshire who had worked with two accomplices downloaded details of more than 800 credit cards over a three-and-a-half year period.
Mahtani who was an IT worker for Checkline plc, a company that processes card transactions for Heathrow Express, used the data obtained to clone almost 9,000 credit cards that were then used to procure £2.2 million.
It emerged that only 10% of the cloned credit card information was of use to the gang and if it had all been of use it was estimated that the fraud could have amounted to £20 million.
Yesterday, at Middlesex Guild Hall Crown Court, Mahtani who pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to defraud, and who admitted charges relating to indecent photographs of children, was sentenced to a total of seven years in jail.
His accomplices Shaidal Rahim, 26, and Shahajan Miah, 26, who both pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to defraud were each jailed for four years.
It is understood that Mahtani started working for Checkline in 1998 as an IT worker and that soon after had commenced the credit card fraud simply by downloading information from the computer used to process the transactions.
(SP)
Sunil Mahtani, 26, from Watford in Hertsfordshire who had worked with two accomplices downloaded details of more than 800 credit cards over a three-and-a-half year period.
Mahtani who was an IT worker for Checkline plc, a company that processes card transactions for Heathrow Express, used the data obtained to clone almost 9,000 credit cards that were then used to procure £2.2 million.
It emerged that only 10% of the cloned credit card information was of use to the gang and if it had all been of use it was estimated that the fraud could have amounted to £20 million.
Yesterday, at Middlesex Guild Hall Crown Court, Mahtani who pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to defraud, and who admitted charges relating to indecent photographs of children, was sentenced to a total of seven years in jail.
His accomplices Shaidal Rahim, 26, and Shahajan Miah, 26, who both pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to defraud were each jailed for four years.
It is understood that Mahtani started working for Checkline in 1998 as an IT worker and that soon after had commenced the credit card fraud simply by downloading information from the computer used to process the transactions.
(SP)
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