Former part-time care worker Anthonia Akinyele, from Chatham in Kent, has been jailed for four years for mortgage fraud and money laundering. Her accomplices – Ruth Ayinde-Azeez, Isaac Matthews, David Hunter and Jason Mercer – have already been jailed for a total of 19 years. Akinyele owned a 20% share in a brokerage business, M Solutions and Financial Limited, which passed false mortgage applications to a solicitors’ firm. Once the applications had been approved by a financial institution, the money would be sent to the solicitors’ client account and then on to two business accounts controlled by Akinyele and Matthews. More than £6 million went through these two accounts in just six weeks in 2008. Mercer and Hunter were puppets in the fraud: their role was to allow the others to use their details on the mortgage applications and then to pay the loans off for a couple of months via direct debit. They then cancelled those direct debits and were paid huge sums of money.
Akinyele was in the process of buying a £2.1 million five-bedroom house in Hertfordshire and had put down a £100,000 cash deposit. She owned a Bentley CTC and a Land Rover Discovery, worth a total of £190,000, and frequently stayed at top hotels in luxurious locations around the world. Police have already seized some items under the Proceeds of Crime Act, and hope to seize more.
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