The boss of the UK's biggest ever cyber fraud gang has been jailed for 12 years for his part in a £113m scam.
Feezan Hameed Choudhary, 25, called himself 'King' and passed himself off as a music producer and property developer.
He partied with popstars and splashed out on Rolex watches and huge shopping sprees.
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Choudhary became so waded that he flew his personal valets 8,000 miles across the world to polish his Porsches, presumably for shits and giggles.
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Southwark Crown Court heard how Choudhary employed two sisters, Amy and Emma Daramola, who worked as Lloyds customer service assistants, and paid them £250 for each bank statement they could hand over.
Choudhary would then call people up and tell them their accounts had been hacked and then get them to give him their internet banking passwords over the phone.
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The court heard how he used sophisticated software to drain victim's bank accounts and would get his workers to jam the firm in question's phone lines to stop them alerting their banks.
Detective Chief Inspector Andrew Gould, who led the investigation, said: "It is the biggest fraud of this kind we have seen in the country.
"The level of trade craft they used was as high, if not higher than most terrorist networks."
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The Glasgow-based fraudster targeted small businesses and used the crazy amounts of cash on luxury cars and a mansion.
He fleeced more than 750 British firms and managed to rake in £3 million a month.
Choudhary's girlfriend, Ayesha Nadeem, 25, was jailed for 20 weeks and his brother, Nouman, 22 - who worked as the gang's accountant - was given three-and-a-half years.
Judge Peter Testar said: "This was a complex, clever, persistent and pitiless fraud.
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"The damage to the people running these businesses was potentially devastating. It would break the hearts of those who lost this money to see how it was frittered away on frivolous junk at Harrods."
What a bastard.
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