Two brothers who masterminded a £244,000 fraud from their council house bedroom have been jailed for a total of 10 years.
Shilu
Miah, 31, and his sibling Dulu Miah, 26, used confidential information
passed on from a bank 'insider' to steal elderly and vulnerable people's
life savings from 218 accounts.
The criminals spent most of the cash from the 12-month scam on luxury holidays, cars and designer clothes, including Louis Vuitton flip flops ' to the tune of £1,000 a pair', Blackfriars Crown Court heard.
The
brothers also went on shopping sprees at Selfridges and Harrods as well
as drinking champagne at nightclubs in London's West End.
Victims had been conned after the fraudsters telephoned them pretending to be from their bank.
After
speaking on the phone and getting vital details such as a pin number, a
taxi was sent to the victim’s house to pick up the bank card and
deliver it to the gang.
As
well as dressing in Ralph Lauren clothes , Dulu Miah enjoyed two
sunshine trips to Miami at his victims' expense, booking an ocean-room
at the Ritz Carlton on one of his lavish breaks.
Judge Aidan Marron, QC, said the brothers had not shown a 'morsel of remorse' as he jailed them.
The judge said they had resorted to
making 'sinister threats' to persuade their elderly victims, aged in
their 80s and 90s, from Camden, north London, to hand over bank cards
and details.
Judge
Marron told them: 'You clearly had some access to private and
confidential bank information, because the information with which you
were armed to incite this conspiracy could only have come from the
confidential files in a bank.
'The
conspiracy lasted for about 12 months, involving about 220 different
cases and the loss in the region of a quarter of a million pounds was
occasioned.'
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