Two brothers from Redditch have been jailed for their part in an audacious fraud which funnelled £12.6 million cash from NHS hospitals, councils and the Guernsey government.
Abdul Naeem, 36, and his brother Mohammed Nadeem, 33, were each given 67 month sentences for laundering the dirty cash through legitimate businesses including a cafe in Sutton Coldfield.
They were part of a high stakes criminal conspiracy which fooled 22 mostly public bodies into handing over the money by sending forged letters claiming to be from legitimate building contractors carrying out work for the organisation.
These letters announced a change of bank details to overseas accounts operated by the gang who then laundered the money through other legitimate businesses.
Asif Habib, 53, of Al Barsha, Dubai, Imitiaz Khoda, 44, of Dallas Road, Lancaster, were also convicted of conspiring to launder the dirty cash. Habib was jailed for 40 months, Khoda for 54 months, and the brothers for 67 months each.
