Indian-Origin Woman Jailed For Driving Test Fraud in United Kingdom

London:

A 29-year-old Indian-origin lady has been sentenced to eight months in jail after admitting impersonating at the least 150 individuals to look for driving checks on their behalf throughout completely different elements of the UK.
Inderjeet Kaur admitted to having concluded roughly 150 concept and sensible driving checks on behalf of candidates between 2018 and 2020.

She dedicated the offences all through England and Wales, together with Swansea, Carmarthen, Birmingham and round London, and pleaded responsible at Swansea Crown Court docket on Thursday when she was sentenced.

“The crimes Inderjeet Kaur dedicated circumvent the driving check course of and in flip places harmless highway customers in danger, by permitting unskilled and harmful motorists to have seemingly reputable licences,” mentioned Detective Chief Inspector Steven Maloney of South Wales Police.

“Security on our roads has all the time been a precedence and arresting people who flaunt the legislation ensures that we are able to hold unqualified drivers off the highway. By working with the DVSA (Driver and Car Requirements Company), this advanced legal investigation highlighted the extent of Inderjeet Kaur’s offending which was purely out of greed. Inderjeet Kaur’s offending has now been halted, and she or he has now been dropped at justice, and we as we speak welcome the sentence imposed by the courts,” he mentioned.

“Frauds corresponding to these pose important dangers to most people and I urge any members of the general public with info on such crimes to report them to the police and even anonymously by way of crime stoppers,” he added.

Inderjeet Kaur is reported to have charged round 800 kilos from every of these she impersonated. She got here underneath the scanner as suspicion grew amongst workers on the check centres that she was impersonating real candidates whereas taking the check.

Following a referral from the DVSA, an investigation was launched by Tarian, the regional organised crime workforce for southern Wales. The investigation uncovered Inderjeet Kaur was providing companies to check candidates who had issue with the English language.

“DVSA’s precedence is to guard everybody from unsafe drivers and autos. Driving and concept checks exist to assist guarantee individuals have the proper information, abilities and angle to drive on our roads,” mentioned Caroline Hicks, DVSA’s Head Regulatory Providers & Transformation.

“Circumventing the checks places lives in peril, now we have strategies in place to detect check fraud and can come down laborious on the individuals concerned. This contains cancelling check passes which were gained fraudulently,” she mentioned.

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