Teenage ‘ghost broker’ jailed

A pair of hands resting on prison bars

A Walsall man has been sent to prison for a year for selling fake motor insurance.

City of London Police said that a 19-year-old man from Walsall has been jailed for selling fake motor insurance to unsuspecting customers.

Azeem Mahmood Hussain (20 January 1997) of Broadway West, Walsall was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment at Wolverhampton Crown Court 1 June, having previously pleaded guilty to fraud by false representation.

According to City of London Poice, an investigation by the Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department (IFED), part of the City of London Police, uncovered

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