There are no shortage of conmen in the current day and age who blatantly lie and fool gullible or vulnerable people into giving them access to their finances.
Money-laundering as well seems to have emerged as a common crime within Britain, where people try to dodge the law by doing illicit transactions underneath the garb of an honourable profession.
Take the story of father and son duo as an example who were alleged to have laundered over £1 million for a drug baron through their family currency exchange, Euro 1 Currency shop, in Paddington.
71-year-old Syed Abidi, and his 38-year-old son, Jamshed Abidi, are said to have used a “smokescreen of ghost or fictitious customers” at their currency exchange to launder “huge amounts of cash”. Investigators had planted secret surveillance cameras and bugs which led to the duo to be caught.
Footage from the surveillance camera allegedly showed the cocaine baron, Florian Koxha (39), who is said to be part of an Albanian gang, had converted cash to smuggle abroad between June 2011 and May 2012.
Koxho is said to have imported a minimum of 100kg of cocaine into Britain. He had smeared the drug packets with Vicks VapoRub to fool sniffer dogs.
Jamshed Abidi was jailed for seven years while his father received 30 months at Southwark Crown Court. Koxho was given 10 years imprisonment.
Another example of fraudulent treatment towards naïve people is when a conman pretended to be a trainee airline pilot on a dating site and lied to extract funds from women. It is claimed that he would used to lie about his father or sister being severely unwell and needing money for treatment.
Ammar Haider (28), is said to have duped three women into giving him £120,000. He was jailed at Birmingham Crown Court for three counts of fraud. At court, Det Con Debra Phillips said, “Haider is a serial liar.”
You will get to meet several people from all walks of life who would make it a point to scam and cheat people. While some appear as blatant criminals, others may be hidden under a mask of nobleness. There are several religious or spiritual healers who have also come under a lot of scrutiny. There have been many spiritual healers who have extorted huge amounts of money from victims who naively believed every word these “spiritual representatives” uttered. It is for this precise reason that Asian Voice/Gujarat Samachar does not accept adverts of spiritual healers, nor promote bogus organisations. No doubt, like in many sectors, fields, religion and countries, you will find good and bad people. But there have been too many negativity and many examples which has left the victims distressed and defenceless. Therefore, we do not promote, advertise nor associate ourselves with spiritual healers black magic purveyors or such frauds.
