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Indebted estate agent jailed for mortgage fraud
Wednesday 3rd March 2010A court has heard how a troubled estate agent driven to the brink by drink, debt and depression stole the identities of two homeowners in a massive mortgage fraud, totalling £2 million.
Luton-based estate agent, Nadeem Sultan, has been jailed for six years for stealing the identity of a businessman to obtain an £835,000 mortgage on his Chelsea
He then went on to steal the identity of a woman who had been dead for over ten years to secure a £1.2 million mortgage on a property in North West London.
However, the specialist lender Excel Securities, became suspicious when they found a series of “appalling” spelling mistakes and factual errors in Mr Sultan’s supporting documents. The police were alerted soon afterwards and the estate agent was arrested.
Despite his defence counsel claiming that Mr Sultan was “vulnerable” and “motivated by being in debt”, Judge John Price at Southwark Crown Court
Peter Martin, defending, also maintained that Mr Sultan had simply orchestrated the facts given to unscrupulous mortgage brokers, describing him as “a tool being used by others”.
Along with the estate agent, four other members of the fraud ring were found guilty and are now due to be sentenced: Titilayo Okuneye – who was labelled the “front” of the fraud, Omawumi Esimaje, Colin Esimaje and Kelvin Akwara.
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