Ticket scam cost Tfl £20 million

Transport for London were fleeced out of £20m in a scam involving forged travel cards, a court heard. Patrick Maybin, 31, Evader Lopes, 23, Adjaney Nazare, 28, Etelberto Monteiro, 27, Stelvio Lemos, 25, and Fabio Sequeira, 30, are accused of involvement in the fraud which ran between September 2017 and June 2019. Prosecutors claim the six men distributed the counterfeit travel cards on behalf of a wider criminal organisation. Luke Staton, prosecuting, said: ‘These defendants are charged with conspiracy to…