Fahad Javaid, 31, had already been banned from walking business for ten years after formerly being jailed for fraud at Hove Crown Court.
This time, he became stuck after acquiring a BMW vehicle, bought with a mortgage, but for which no payments were made.
Sussex Police said: “A Peacehaven man is starting a prison sentence over a sequence of frauds netting some £60,000 after a coordinated investigation by police teams across Sussex.
“Fahad Javaid, 31, of Foxhill, Peacehaven, appeared at Lewes Crown Court on Tuesday, 1 October, and was sentenced to 4 years and 4 months imprisonment, having pleaded guilty to fraud, money laundering, and theft, in addition to breaching a court docket-issued Serious Crime Prevention Order granted in 2013 after his conviction for previous fraud offenses.”
Detective Constable Karen Young of West Sussex Investigations said: “This became a complicated investigation protecting Javaid’s offending from 2015 to 2019.
“He installed an employer, Express Smart Repairs, that marketed on the websites Groupon and Wowcher to perform scratch and dent maintenance on vehicles that might be performed at customers’ home addresses.
“Payment was required upfront to cozy a cell mechanic; however, no mechanic ever arrived, and no refunds were ever obtained.
“To assist in carrying out this fraud, to which 39 humans from all over the UK fell victim, Javaid leased a property on Lewes Road, Brighton, from where the frauds were instigated.
“This blanketed the sale of garage boxes that some customers bought, but that never arrived. No refunds have ever been obtained.
“The fraud began to come to police word while in February 2016 Javaid, who had received, via a 3rd birthday celebration, entry to to a BMW purchased on finance, in which repayments were now not met, became stopped by using officers while riding the automobile, and the finance corporation repossessed the car.
“Detectives became suspicious once they checked and found that Javaid changed into strolling the organization while already difficulty of the Serious Crime Prevention Order and become banned from being a company director for ten years, having been sentenced to a complete two and a half years imprisonment at Hove Crown Court on (Monday) 29 April 2013, after pleading responsible to fraudulent trading, wearing on an ancillary credit business without a consumer credit score license, ten counts of fraud and one depend of perverting the route of justice.”
