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Mother jailed after leaving customers £7.5million out of pocket
11:27am Friday 19th October 2012 in News
Kankamol Albon was jailed at Ipswich Crown Court on Wednesday
A MOTHER of five behind a multi million pound luxury car fraud scheme has been been jailed for six years.
Kankamol Albon, 41, funded a lavish lifestyle by faking VAT claims and taking money from customers after making false promises about profits and her ability to get VIP discounts on Bentleys, Porsches, Maseratis.
In total Albon's customers were left out of pocket by around £7.5 million while she drew £580,000 from the business to pay for private education for her children, running her home and shopping.
Her business, N A Carriage Company, is based in Bures, Suffolk.
She was jailed at Ipswich Crown Court on Wednesday.
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Comments(4)
mechanic7
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3:25pm Fri 19 Oct 12
Boris
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11:56pm Fri 19 Oct 12
mechanic7 wrote:Her victims were rich cheapskates and that means her crime was more heinous than a crime against a poor person.
Why did these people not go to the car dealers direct ?? Greed .I am glad that this woman has been convicted but maybe her victims should have remembered that if it sounds too good to be true it probably is.
No sympathy for Ms Albon or for her victims.
G.Speel
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9:17am Sat 20 Oct 12
G.Speel says...
2:13pm Fri 19 Oct 12