Man jailed for car insurance scam
Personal insurance
22nd October 2009
A man has been jailed in Manchester having pleaded guilty to charges relating to a car insurance conspiracy.
Mohammed Patel, 24, of Nottingham Drive, Bolton, charged £500 to stage an accident and purposefully caused at least 93 incidents in a three-year period between 2005 and 2008.
He was jailed at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court for four-and-a-half years, after it was revealed that he funded a luxury lifestyle with proceeds of at least £46,000 generated by creating bogus claims, which cost insurers millions of pounds.
Mr Patel was caught after office workers in a building above a site in Cheadle Hulme he used regularly for crashes reported him.
He admitted to conspiracy to defraud, driving when disqualified and dangerous driving linked to crashes he caused using claimants' vehicles by stopping abruptly.
The importance of drivers having insurance was emphasised last month when the government announced plans to prosecute owners of vehicles without cover as well as those caught behind the wheel of uninsured cars.
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