HAQUE: CRASH FOR CASH GANG FACE JAIL

Seven insurance fraudsters who smashed up cars at ‘crash for cash’ drinking parties are facing jail. 

The gang made 123 fake claims to rake in £1.17m in fake claims on top of the range vehicles in a three year wrecking spree.

Many of the luxury motors including Mercedes, Jaguars and BMWs were damaged after the gang got drunk in a garage together.

As music blasted out they rammed the cars into eachother and if the damage was not bad enough they finished the job with a baseball bat.

Ringleader Samsul Haque, 26, held the parties at his garage, Haque’s Motor Alliance, in Tottenham, north London.

Witness Angeline del Prado was at the garage when the gang staged the parties with invited guests including Haque’s lieutenant Rosul Yusuf, 33.

‘After the food and drink Samsul Haque asked everyone present to get ready and clear a space in the garage,’ said prosecutor David Aronberg.
 
‘He and Yusuf then directed others to get certain cars and drive them into other cars.
 
‘Ms del Prado She queried what was going on with Yusuf and he told her that if leased vehicles came back damaged by clients or over the agreed mileage they would lose money so they smashed up cars in fake accidents so they could make insurance claims.
 
‘She saw about six car smashes that night.
 
‘After each crash Haque and Yusuf would inspect the vehicles and see if there was sufficient damage.
 
‘If not the others would use baseball bats to add more damage, generally to the lights and wings of the cars.’

The gang were all involved in three ‘three accident’ management companies – Prestige Auto Group, which later became Diamond Auto Group, which were both based in Walthamstow and Motor Alliance.

When officers raided the premises of Motor Alliance officers discovered 64 files relating to bogus insurance claims in the boot of a silver Mercedes.

The businesses were run by Haque, an architectural technology student, who admitted conspiracy to defraud.

Halimur Rashid, 28, was convicted of conspiracy to defraud after a jury at Southwark Crown Court returned a unanimous guilty verdict.

Rashid was on trial alongside Rosul Yusuf, 33, Shalim Miah, 29, and Noveed Akhtar, 39, who all pleaded guilty to their involvement in the fraud mid-way through proceedings.

Yusuf, of (16) Sandhurst Drive, Ilford, Essex; Miah, of (Flat 24) Longleat House, Rampayne Street, Pimlico, Central London; and Akhtar, of (Flat 14) Cochrane Court, Leyton Grange Estate, Leyton, East London, will be sentenced next month.

All three admitted conspiracy to defraud between November 13, 2005 and October 16, 2008.

They will be sentenced alongside Haque and two other men Nazruislam Muhammad Rahman, of (39) Greyhound Road, Tottenham, North London, and Paul Ellis, of (10) Pragnell Road, Lee, southeast London, on October 18 and 19.

Ellis pleaded guilty in March to supplying driving licences to the gang to be used in the fraud and entering into an arrangement to facilitate the acquisition of criminal property.

Rahman, of (39) Greyhound Road, Tottenham, north London, admitted pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud.
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Witness Angeline del Prado was at the garage when the gang staged the parties with invited guests including Haque’s lieutenant Rosul Yusuf, 33.

‘After the food and drink Samsul Haque asked everyone present to get ready and clear a space in the garage,’ said prosecutor David Aronberg.
 
‘He and Yusuf then directed others to get certain cars and drive them into other cars.
 
‘Ms del Prado She queried what was going on with Yusuf and he told her that if leased vehicles came back damaged by clients or over the agreed mileage they would lose money so they smashed up cars in fake accidents so they could make insurance claims.
 
‘She saw about six car smashes that night.
 
‘After each crash Haque and Yusuf would inspect the vehicles and see if there was sufficient damage.
 
‘If not the others would use baseball bats to add more damage, generally to the lights and wings of the cars.’

The gang were all involved in three ‘three accident’ management companies – Prestige Auto Group, which later became Diamond Auto Group, which were both based in Walthamstow and Motor Alliance.

When officers raided the premises of Motor Alliance officers discovered 64 files relating to bogus insurance claims in the boot of a silver Mercedes.

The businesses were run by Haque, an architectural technology student, who admitted conspiracy to defraud.

Halimur Rashid, 28, was convicted of conspiracy to defraud after a jury at Southwark Crown Court returned a unanimous guilty verdict.

Rashid was on trial alongside Rosul Yusuf, 33, Shalim Miah, 29, and Noveed Akhtar, 39, who all pleaded guilty to their involvement in the fraud mid-way through proceedings.

Yusuf, of (16) Sandhurst Drive, Ilford, Essex; Miah, of (Flat 24) Longleat House, Rampayne Street, Pimlico, Central London; and Akhtar, of (Flat 14) Cochrane Court, Leyton Grange Estate, Leyton, East London, will be sentenced next month.

All three admitted conspiracy to defraud between November 13, 2005 and October 16, 2008.

They will be sentenced alongside Haque and two other men Nazruislam Muhammad Rahman, of (39) Greyhound Road, Tottenham, North London, and Paul Ellis, of (10) Pragnell Road, Lee, southeast London, on October 18 and 19.

Ellis pleaded guilty in March to supplying driving licences to the gang to be used in the fraud and entering into an arrangement to facilitate the acquisition of criminal property.

Rahman, of (39) Greyhound Road, Tottenham, north London, admitted pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud.
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