Raja Shahzad, 32, of Reigate Avenue, Saltley, had been at large for more than seven years after pleading guilty to five charges of taking property by deception and one of conspiracy to defraud at Gloucester Crown Court.
Since committing the frauds, Shahzad had moved to Birmingham, got married and now has a six-year-old daughter.
The Pakistani national, who came to the UK in 2003 and was finally sentenced after he was stopped by police for jumping a red light.
Recorder Adrian Palmer QC sentenced Shahzad to a 20-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, and imposed a six-month electronically tagged curfew, from 8pm to 7am.
The court heard that in 2006 Shahzad had opened a bank account with the Royal Bank of Scotland in the name of Kashmiri Handicraft Carpets. He was then passed details of customers who had paid – by either credit or debit cards – for food at the Everest balti restaurant in Cheltenham and for six months charged them identical sums to Kashmiri Handicraft Carpets.
RBS froze the Kashmiri Handicraft Carpets account and had to refund customers of the restaurant a total of £116,000.
