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A group who fraudulently claimed to be able to provide PPE during the pandemic but instead spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on house renovations and luxury cars have been convicted after a NCA investigation.
Jogesh Bhandari owned and controlled a company set up in 2020 to buy and sell nitrile gloves during the Covid-19 pandemic and Craig Morris made representations on behalf of the company in numerous fraudulent deals.
Bhandari would agree deals to provide boxes of the gloves for millions of pounds each time, but the money was instead used to pay off debts, to buy himself a new Porsche and extensive improvements to his house.
Bank records showed the Bhandaris also spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on Rolexes and other luxury watches, jewellery, cars including an Audi A5, a Land Rover Discovery and a VW Golf, and worldwide luxury travel and holiday packages.
None of the money was used for its intended purpose.
In messages, Morris says 'All over the news is all about ppe shortage. Let's clean up!! Milk it... fill ya boots'. Bhandari replies: '[thumbs up] it's about a good teamwork and EVERYONE making money'.
All three defendants were arrested in 2023 and were convicted today.
The NCA will continue to target fraudsters like these who cause significant harm to the UK economy.
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