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Barclays Cycle Hire bikesBoris bike scammers jailed for £42,000 fraud
Two Boris bike workers who made bogus refund payments to friends totalling £42,000 have been jailed.
Nana Boateng and Jose Dias, both 26, worked in the cycle hire customer contact centre, where they authorised false refunds to seven friends. They made a guilty plea in March at Southwark Crown Court.
The refund payments are typically made to customers who are charged wrongly for their bike use; from a £1 charge when there is no paper in the machine to print a bike release code on, to a £300 charge for failing to dock a bike properly on its return.
Working in the north London contact centre, Dias paid out over £24,000 to friends over a two-day period, the Independent reported.
The scam began when the pair realised that TfL was not enforcing the rule that cash refunds had to be authorised by a manager, and began issuing them themselves, between September and December 2010.
Boateng was jailed for nine months, including one month for breaching an order for a separate offence, and Dias was sentenced to six months in jail.
Boateng’s barrister, Alexander Williams, called the crime ‘opportunistic’ and said that his client had only received around £8,000, of which he sent half to a sick aunt in Ghana.
Judge Alistair McCreath also handed out suspended prison sentences and community orders to the seven friends, who were convicted of money laundering offences.
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Godwin's law in 4 posts that must be a new record, well done !
don't sully this website with your casual racism and you won't suffer any personal abuse. simple, really.
"the ignorant racist arse you appear to be."
Or the ignorant peronally abusive person you are ?
The word you are looking for is "personally", or perhaps "peroneally" although i'm not sure how i could be abusive to a specific muscle group.
If you can justify the statement you originally made and clarify your point then i would be glad to offer a retraction and apology.
I would love to see the logical gymnastics required to explain your original statement as anything other than blatant racism.
Cycling is, as a general rule, a very inclusive sport and i see no place for that kind of comment in our community.
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Nana Boateng, Jose Dias, say no more.
Can you say a little more? Do you know these people? If not, your comment could come across as a teensy bit racist.
Kaska didn't you know it's ok to be racist on an anonymous forum?
Seriously though, what a spectacularly moronic comment. It's not worth going into but be assured that the rest of road.cc are judging you dreamlx10 as the ignorant racist arse you appear to be.
God stupid people make my head hurt.
Based on the comments this has generated, perhaps you should say some more. What exactly does this mean? Just to clarify, like.
"A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat eh? Say no more eh, eh?"
I think everyone should calm down and leave Dreamix10 alone!
I mean come on! Everyone knows that immigrants with dodgy sounding names were stealing before they could crawl, eh Dreamix10? It's not even their fault - it's their genetic inferiority that leads 'em to it...nothing racist about pointing that out in a friendly (and anonymous) way. The anonymous bit is what I really admire - way to show some backbone dreamix10
My kinda guy - let me know where I can sign up for your neo-nazi nerds club. You prat.
Why, without further explanation from you, I'm forced to regard you as a knob.
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