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9 months for £21m scam
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 Stuk  Top half 14 Sep 15 2.32pm |
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Can only assume it's because they're women and mostly old ones. 9 months was the maximum dished out and a few only got suspended sentences.
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| leggedstruggle Croydon 14 Sep 15 2.35pm |
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Wouldn't
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| bubble wrap Carparks in South East London 14 Sep 15 2.36pm |
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That report is nearly a year old.
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| Stuk Top half 14 Sep 15 2.43pm |
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Quote bubble wrap at 14 Sep 2015 2.36pm
That report is nearly a year old. Back in the news today as the case cost £1.4m and they only recovered £500K from the slags: [Link] Found one other UK case where a bloke did it, he got 6 years.
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| jamiemartin721 Reading 14 Sep 15 3.22pm |
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Seems a rather lenient sentence.
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| oldcodger 14 Sep 15 3.25pm |
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If anything the sentences encourage rather than discourage.
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| OurKid85 Fareham 14 Sep 15 5.50pm |
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I was at an industry event a couple of years ago and, as these things do, the speaker at the end was a guy called Tony Sales. The Sun dubbed him Britain's greatest fraudster (???). He was talking about his scams, how we went about making his money, how at one point he was 'worth over £30M' and had between 50-100 people working for him on various scams across the country, spent 6 years on the run and ruined countless lives. On the Q&A at the end, someone asked how this country can make more of an effort to deter these types of things, his answer was harsher sentencing. From memory, he said something along the lines of "I ripped off thousands of people, made over £30M, ruined countless peoples lives financially taking out mortgages in their name and ruining their businesses, I spent 6 years on the run and when I was finally caught, I did less than a year in prison. I would've got a lot more time behind bars if I'd popped round a mates house, bought a bag of heroin and was caught carrying it back to mine'. It would appear sentencing is somewhat lenient in some cases for this type of crime (or most crimes I suppose, circumstances depending)
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 grumpymort  US/Thailand/UK 14 Sep 15 6.44pm |
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This country is very biased towards women this is why. I noticed this when going through loads of different laws and regulations women have far more rights then men and punishments are old fashion in the sense people never thought women would do such acts.
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| Tom-the-eagle Croydon 14 Sep 15 8.50pm |
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Quote leggedstruggle at 14 Sep 2015 2.35pm
Wouldn't
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| rob1969 Banstead Surrey 15 Sep 15 10.18am |
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Who says crime doesn't pay! These sentences more promotional than any sort of deterrent.
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| jamiemartin721 Reading 15 Sep 15 10.29am |
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21m for 9 months, if you get to keep the money - definitely worth it. Although they may well have been less 'primary' figures, I notice that two or three of them have yet to be sentenced, presumably the ring leaders. Maybe these were people who 'didn't really profit significantly from the scam'
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| jamiemartin721 Reading 15 Sep 15 10.32am |
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Quote rob1969 at 15 Sep 2015 10.18am
Who says crime doesn't pay! These sentences more promotional than any sort of deterrent. Criminals, when questioned by the police as to where their 'ill gotten gains are'. Crime can pay remarkably well, especially if you're in the areas of crime ancillary to actual offending. Money Laundering for example, sentences tend to be remarkably light, profits remarkably high.
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