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Dad-of-five at large for four years after stealing nearly £85k is finally caught - and then spared jail
07.02.2022 - 16:15 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A fraudster who swindled companies out tens of thousands of pounds in a 'sophisticated' e-mail scam and then evaded justice for nearly four and a half years has walked free from court.
Dad-of-five Mohammed Rahman, 41, stole almost £85,000 in a "classic diversion fraud" which saw half a dozen companies targeted with emails advising them to divert funds they owed to other firms into his bank account.
Rahman then failed to appear in court to face the charges in 2017 and avoided arrest until late last year.
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He was released from Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court on Friday after a judge said the five months he had spent on remand meant he was able to suspend his sentence.
The fraudulent e-mails all purported to be from three genuine companies, Avocet, Premier Tools and Centreless, and were sent in December 2014 and January 2015 to customers with whom they had a "genuine business relationship", the court was told.
The emails told them that their suppliers bank details had changed and any future payments should be a sent to a new, Lloyds Bank account.
That account was in fact Rahman's personal account which he used on a day-to-day basis.
A total of £84,742.15 was received by Rahman. He made several onward money transfers and withdrew a large amount of cash.
The emails were also linked back to an IP address listed at his then address in Chadderton, Oldham.
Two of the three sets of e-mails were sent by genuine addresses belonging to the companies, which the prosecution said had been "hacked into in some way."
The third set was sent from a slightly different address designed to mimic the genuine one.
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