Asylum seeker sought over insurance fraud
An asylum seeker who faked several car accidents in order to reap off insurers is wanted by the police in the UK for car insurance fraud.
Reports said Hussein Hassani staged bogus road accidents following which the so-called victims made personal injury and whiplash claims amongst others.
They often took advantage of the no win, no fee conditional arrangement to lodge such claims.
His accomplices were said to have deliberately smashed up their cars before claiming they had been involved in an accident, blaming the other driver they would then claim on insurance taken out by fellow fraudsters.
The culprits, according to detectives, are up to 1,000 in number and the masterminds were still being hunted.
29-year-old Hassani, of Edmonton, north London bagged a jail term of four years in absentia at London’s Blackfriars Crown Court yesterday.
He had denied a conspiracy to defraud.
The short period between a policy start and a claim as well as the increasing number of fake-sounding names involved raised suspicions about activities of the racket.
Updated on 3/20/2009