TWO individuals have been sentenced to a combined 12 years of imprisonment in the UK for their roles in a £1.5m crypto fraud.
Between February 2017 and June 2019, Raymondip Bedi and Patrick Mavanga defrauded at least 65 investors, swindling £1.54 million ($2.1 million).
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Hennie Verbeek-Kusters appointed as AMLA Executive Board Member
AMLA
The Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA) welcomes the decision of the Council of the European Union to appoint Ms Hennie Verbeek-Kusters as the fifth Executive Board Member of AMLA.
People smugglers who arranged HGV transport for migrants are convicted
National Crime Agency
A pair of people smugglers who arranged the transport of Vietnamese migrants to the UK hidden in lorries have been convicted.
National Crime Agency officers investigated Duc Quang Ta, 36, from Reading, and Sarfaraz Sardarzehi, 58, from London, after both were arrested following vehicle stops in September 2020, with three migrants discovered in Sardarzehi’s car.