A former police officer has pleaded guilty to his part in a scam through which he received thousands of pounds in payouts after deliberate vehicle crashes.
Kuldip Singh, 42, was a serving officer with the Metropolitan Police while part of a group which organised ‘crash for cash’ collisions and then made fraudulent claims for personal injury and vehicle damage compensation from insurance companies.
Singh fled the country after being dismissed without notice from the Met in November 2017 and was extradited from Georgia on March 4, with sentencing to take place at Southwark Crown Court on June 2.
Busola Johnson, Specialist Prosecutor with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) Special Crime Division, said that Singh showed a "sustained pattern of calculated dishonesty, carried out for financial gain and designed to deceive insurers, employers and the justice system itself".
In one such incident on March 11 2016, a member of the group, Raiyaan Anwar, drove his Tesco delivery van into the back of a white Citroen, which was being driven by Singh and contained four other passengers also involved in the scam.
Anwar, 32, admitted liability for the crash to his employer, which led to five fraudulent personal injury compensation claims totalling 33,362 - although only 912 was paid out.
Singh also ran a car hire company called ADK Supreme with another man, Alper Emin, 55, through which high-value vehicles were obtained on finance and rented out to individuals who would have been unable...
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