This UK mom is facing jail time and will be getting substantial punishment for conning brands and stores across the country over the course of the past 4 years after she made refund claims in hundreds and thousands of dollars for items that she shoplifted.
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A woman who stole thousands of dollars by returning items and getting refunds on them is facing jail time for her scam on an 'industrial scale.'
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Narinder Kaur carried out the scam, conning high street shops out of more than $600,000 by returning items she had never paid for in the first place.
Kaur - who also used the name Nina Tiara - made the fraud her ‘full-time career’, the Crown Prosecution said.
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Over the past four years, she had made more than 1000 fae refund claims across the UK, collecting cash for all the shoplifted items.
According to the investigators, the police and CPS have built a case against Kaur for using financial data, retail records, witness evidence, and CCTV which showed her pattern of offending.
She was seen on CCTV entering stores, taking items from the shelves and taking them to the tills as if they had been previously purchased.
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In two searches of her home, police discovered around $182,000 in cash, hidden away, as well as stolen goods.
Kaur, from Cleverton in Wiltshire, was convicted of 26 counts including fraud, possessing and transferring criminal property, and perverting the course of justice at a trial earlier this month.
An initial investigation into her finances showed that she received thousands of dollars more than she had spent in shops including Debenhams and John Lewis.
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The investigation revealed that Kaur received $74.050,83 in refunds from Boots despite only spending $6.301,42 at its stores.
She was also given $52,204.27 in refunds from Debenhams, although she had only spent $4,484.60.
She also defrauded TK Maxx of more than $17,663.90, the court heard.
"It was a very lucrative full-time job which demonstrably made her over half a million pounds over this period of offending.
"She went to extraordinary lengths to carry out her deceptions, seeking to find a way of defrauding a retailer and then traveling all over the country to replicate the fraud.
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"She also changed her name legally and opened new bank accounts and credit cards in a second identity to avoid detection.
"She now righty faces a significant sentence for her crimes and the prosecution will look to recoup as many of her ill-gotten gains as the law allows."
Kaur will be sentenced at a later date but has been warned to expect a ‘substantial’ jail term.
