Tuesday 7 September 2010
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12 years’ jail for IFA and property tycoons over multi-million pound fraud
Tuesday 7th September 2010
A trio of two property developers and an IFA has had its multi-million pound mortgage fraud racket uncovered as part of a major city-wide crackdown on crime by Coventry police. IFA Mark Campbell of St Ann’s Road in Stoke, helped Michael Browne, 49, and his business partner David Vincent Smith from Tile Hill in Coventry, to obtain fraudulent mortgage applications by faking and inflating the men’s incomes, reports the Sunday Mercury. Campbell was sentenced to five-and-a-half years jail at Birmingham Crown Court. Browne, from Canley, received three years after having his sentence reduced because he pleaded guilty and spent time on remand. Smith will serve three-and-a-half years in prison. A fourth man was also involved, Andrew Harris, from Keresley who helped provide false payslips, he has pleaded guilty but he is yet to be sentenced. Campbell overstated Browne’s income on several occasions,...

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