The trio each had a role to play in defrauding 41 customers out of money while they were hoping to sell their high-end cars at the Birchwood Park dealership. Many customers had their expensive cars sold, and only found out when the DVLA informed them that the owner of the vehicle had changed, with some still having never seen the profit from the sale. During the sentencing of Paul Roche, Basil Osman and Mohammed Fiaz at Liverpool Crown Court on Wednesday, it was heard how the leader of the deceitful enterprise and brother to Mohammed, Shahnawaz Fiaz is currently still at large.
Explaining the facts of the case, prosecutor Ben Lawrence told of how the fraudulent business, Mansori Cars, based in Risley, first opened in November 2016. Shahnawaz Fiaz was jailed for his involvement in a previous fraudulent enterprise SK Performance Cars (Image: Supplied) This was set up by Shahnawaz Fiaz, who was being investigated at the time and later prosecuted for similar fraudulent offences involving another car business – SK Performance Cars, based in Bolton. The Bolton News reported in 2018 how he had been jailed for 56 months for scamming customers out of £300,000 in total from that dealership.
Similarly, his new business model involved the buying and selling of cars, in which the employees at the dealership would locate expensive cars on Auto Trader and would contact the owners of the vehicles and offer up a 'fixed contract', in which they would advertise and aim to sell the car within.