A FRAUDSTER used Groupon and Wowcher to swindle £60,000 for vehicle repairs, which had never been finished.
Fahad Javaid installed Express Smart Repairs and advertised it on cut-price websites.
He offered scratch and dent maintenance offerings and said a mechanic could turn up at customers’ addresses.
But those paying needed to stump up the coins up front, only to discover no mechanic arrived, and their pleas for a refund were brushed aside.
The 31-year-old antique was installed by the agency regardless of previous convictions for fraud in 2013, where he was presupposed to be difficult to a Serious Crime Prevention Order.
He was handiest scuppered while trying to shop for a BMW on finance, and his repayments have not been met.
There have been 39 victims of his fraud throughout the U. S ., Lewes Crown Court heard.
Javaid pleaded responsible for fraud, money laundering, theft, and breaching the prevention order.
He was sentenced to four years and four months in jail this month.
The court docket turned into told that detectives noticed Javaid was strolling organizations in 2016, regardless of a ten-yr ban underneath the prevention order.
He had served a 1/2 12 month prison sentence from a case heard at Hove Crown Court in April 2013.
That was when he pleaded guilty to fraudulent buying and selling, operating an ancillary credit enterprise without a consumer credit score license, ten counts of fraud, and one count of perverting the path of justice.
Detective Constable Karen Young, following the case in advance this month, said, “This was complicated research covering Javaid’s offending from 2015 through to 2019.
“He installed an employer’, Express Smart Repairs, which advertised on the websites Groupon and Wowcher to carry out scratch and dent maintenance on cars that might be completed at clients’ home addresses.
“Payment was required up front to comfort a cellular mechanic; however, no mechanic arrived, and no refunds were ever obtained.
“The fraud commenced to come to police’s attention when, in February 2016, Javaid, who had obtained, through a third birthday party, admission to a BMW bought on finance, wherein payments were no longer meeting, was stopped by officials while riding the car, and the car was repossessed via the finance organization.
Javaid of Foxhill, Peacehaven, must serve half his sentence before being launched on the license.
DC Young introduced: “To help carry out this fraud, which affected 39 people from all over the UK, Javaid leased property in Lewes Road, Brighton, from which the frauds were instigated.
