An Indian-origin former police officer who pleaded guilty to his part in a “crash for cash” scam involving fraudulent personal injury claims has been sentenced to four years and five months in prison in the UK.
Kuldip Singh, 42, was a Metropolitan Police officer when he got involved with a group which organised pre-arranged collisions with vehicles and then made fraudulent claims for compensation from insurance companies.
He pleaded guilty to the crime earlier this year and was jailed to four years and five months on Friday, and was disqualified from being a company director for five years.
The UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) have previously said the scam involved the group receiving thousands of pounds in personal injury and vehicle damage compensations.
“Kuldip Singh was a serving police officer when he chose to involve himself in a corrupt scam that saw fraudulent insurance claims made after pre-arranged crashes,” said Busola Johnson, Specialist Prosecutor with the CPS Special Crime Division.
“On top of that, he made fraudulent and false claims about vehicles from his own car hire company. This was not a momentary lapse of judgement but a sustained pattern of calculated dishonesty, carried out for financial gain and designed to deceive insurers, employers and the justice system itself.
“The public are entitled to expect the highest standards from those entrusted with enforcing the law, and Kuldip Singh’s actions represented a serious betrayal of that trust and...
An Indian-origin former police officer who pleaded guilty to his part in a “crash for cash” scam involving fraudulent personal injury claims has been sentenced to four years and five months in p...