A crook who masterminded a four million-mile car clocking scam involving four of his relatives has been jailed for more than five years.
Rashid Mahmood and his accomplices turned a £175,000 profit as they slashed the mileage from at least 255 motors and falsified service histories to cover their tracks.
One car had an astonishing 125,000 miles wiped from its history – a distance of more than halfway to the moon. Some of the doctored vehicles broke down soon after they were sold, while one innocent buyer was the subject of a later claim for selling a clocked car.
Mahmood, 42, of Heather Road, Small Heath, was jailed for five-and-a-half years at Birmingham Crown Court. He was found guilty of conspiring to commit fraud by selling or trying to sell cars with false mileages between 2007 and 2011.
Mahmood’s four relatives were jailed for a total of 12 years and nine months at the same court in July.
Waseem Hussain, 27, of Mary Road, Stechford, and his uncle Shahid Mahmood, 44, also of Heather Road, were found guilty of conspiring to commit fraud by selling or trying to sell cars with false mileages. They were each sentenced to 18 months.
Waseem’s father Abid Hussain, 54, and his other son Nadeem Abid Hussain, 29, both of Mary Road, pleaded guilty to the same charges. They were sentenced to 61 months and 56 months respectively.
