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Nicola Laver

Editor, Solicitors Journal

PROPERTY FRAUD

5 Jan 2020News

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PROPERTY FRAUD

By Nicola Laver

Loughborough-based solicitors Hashok Parmar and Syed Gous Ali have been sentenced to six years in prison for plotting to sell properties worth an estimated £3m in total without the owners' knowledge. The lawyers from Sterling Law Solicitors planned to fraudulently change the names on the ownership deeds. Solicitors acting for the purchasers in the attempted 'sales' first became suspicious in 2015 when the owners of one of three 'purchased' properties in London were revealed to have never put the property on sale. 3 June 2020

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