‘I can’t afford £19k,’ says millionaire fraudster

A ‘crash for cash fraudster’ claims he cannot pay a £19,000 court bill despite trading in Rolex watches and Ferraris worth hundreds of thousands of pounds. Shajeel Malik, 32, worked with an accomplice to set up an online policy for a Peugeot 206 with Direct Line using the alias ‘John West’ of ‘Shifty Rental Solutions’ in 2016. Malik submitted an insurance claim under the name Habib saying that the driver had suffered whiplash after his Mercedes had been in a…