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Woman jailed for £200,000 PPI fraud


A woman in Wales has received a four-year prison sentence for running a PPI scam

Richard Young

Posted 18 June 2019 | JoTS Online


Content Tags:  Updates|Crime|Wales


UPDATES: A Welsh fraudster has been jailed after using a bogus PPI claims business to deceive hundreds of victims out of almost £200,000, bringing another successful trading standards prosecution against a persistent offender.

A woman has been jailed for almost four years after defrauding residents of Talbot Green in Wales nearly £200,000 via an unlawful PPI claims company.

Emma Meredith Hughes was sentenced the year after she was ordered to pay £10,000 compensation to the victims of her previous business, who had paid for work that either never began, or was shoddy.

She appeared before Merthyr ...

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