An unscrupulous letting agent in east London who conned hundreds of people over the course of five years has been jailed for more than three years.
Mohammed Moynul Haque headed up letting agencies Citiside and Flintons, which fraudulently left victims homeless and financially out of pocket.
Haque’s agencies posted adverts featuring fake property photos, with a view to tricking rental applicants into signing contracts and handing over deposits before viewing the properties, and then threatened with forcible and illegal evictions.
Haque led the fraud, sitting at the head of lettings agent Citiside Properties Ltd until it was shut down following a string of complaints. He later set up another agency, Flintons, to carry on scamming renters, and was also linked to a third rogue agency, Mayfields.
At Southwark crown court yesterday, Haque was sentenced to three years and five months in prison.
His ex-wife, Fatima Begum, was handed a four-month sentence, suspended for six months, office manager Gonzalo Egea received a two-year suspended sentence, Razaur Rahman Oli was given a nine-month sentence, suspended for a year, and Nozir Ahmed received a four month prison term suspended for a year.
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