A used car salesman has been convicted of fraud after admitting making false mileage claims in adverts. Qais Kataria was prosecuted by Leicester City Council trading standards officials after customers complained vehicles they bought from him were faulty.
Leicester Crown Court heard Kataria, director of 50 Cars.co.uk Ltd and Trade Disposal Centre based in Blackbird Avenue and at the Kilby Bridge site in Wigston, had consistently lied in adverts in Autotrader about the mileage of vehicles he was selling.
After reviewing vehicle adverts produced by Kataria in 2013, trading standards officers found that eight were being advertised with false mileages.
