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Fraudster ordered to repay earnings


A man who was jailed for selling fake goods has been ordered to pay back £750,000

Richard Young

Posted 11 September 2019 | JoTS Online


Content Tags:  Updates|Crime|South West


UPDATES: A fraudster convicted of operating a fake online goods business has been ordered to repay hundreds of thousands of pounds under proceeds of crime legislation or face further imprisonment.

A man found guilty of running a fake goods business online has been ordered to hand back three quarters of a million pounds of illicit earnings – or face a further five years in prison.

In August last year, Gregory William Whitehead, 50, was jailed for 32 months and William Thomas Lemoyne, 37, was handed a two year suspended sentence.

Both men had been pleaded guilty to conspiring t...

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