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The chief of a troop of fraud of insurance was imprisoned, after a court heard that it directed an accident staged to claim around £82,000 in the disbursements.



The senior of Musharaf was sent yesterday to the prison for 18 months after it proved to be guilty conspiracy to defraud the insurance company of Zurich.

The Penal Court of Bolton heard that the fraud was common to Bolton, making the city one of the sectors of the neuralgic point of the country for the fraud of insurance.

The senior of Musharaf, old 32, was condemned beside his wife, Rehana, was aged 31, and former associate Luqman Patel of businesses, old 28, which proved to be guilty conspiracy to defraud during a test in December.


They were two the twelve months sorrows given, suspended during two years.

Condemning the senior of Musharaf, judge Steven Everett said: I am completely sure am to you an individual dishonest person. You are the leader. It was a serious question and the public must know if you make this kind of offence which the prison must follow.

The seniors were the common directors of care of car spread by all the Ltd country, in the street of Derby, Bolton, which rents outside cars with people who were implied in the accidents and provides taxis to the ranks of taxi in Bolton.

The court had heard how the defendants, like David Sleigh, aged 46, and Caroline Catley, aged 34, claimed them had been implied in an car accident on July 2, 2002, with the junction of the street of Derby and street of Venice, Bolton.

But an inspector of vehicle said the damage to the cars were not compatible with their history and when an investigator of accidents visited Sleigh and Catley they admitted that the accident had not occurred.

The seniors, of the avenue of Baysdale, Deane, and Patel, the street of Sunninghill, Daubhill, had been held to gain a total of until £82,000, but the seniors gave up their complaints when they were carried to the Court of the County of Bolton by insurance of Zurich, and the complaint of Patel was abandoned after it could not answer the questions of the company.

All the potential loss for Zurich would have been more than £250,000, the heard court.

Catley and Sleigh, about avenue of Moorside, Farnworth, spoke in favour culprit with the fraud with Sleigh showing against the defendants with their test.

The figures of the insurance of Zurich prove that in 2008 they discovered that the calculation of the false costs of 1.031 complaints the company £9.8million and Bolton was accentuated like sector of neuralgic point for the fraud.

The judge eliminated the senior from Musharaf to act as a company director during five years and ordered him, his wife and Patel each one to pay £2,800 in costs.

The senior and Patel de Rehana were also ordered to finish 300 work hours in the community.

Sleigh was given sentence a eight month, suspended during 12 months, and 200 work hours unpaid. Catley was given an order of the 12 months community and said it must finish 150 work hours unpaid.

The revealing policeman Mike Gladwin said: It is incredible the lengths that some will go to for the money.