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DVLA Employee and Two Others Sentenced for Vehicle Record Fraud
A former DVLA worker and two car traders received prison terms after altering vehicle documents at the Swansea office. The scheme produced £117,500 in losses to the agency and raised vehicle values by about £1.29 million.
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A former DVLA employee and two car traders were sentenced this week at Swansea Crown Court for conspiracy to commit fraud between January 2021 and July 2022. The 32-year-old worker used his access to change records and falsify documents for vehicles, including allowing a written-off Ferrari from Australia to be sold in the UK with false paperwork.
He received payments totaling £23,400 from the traders for the alterations.
The former employee received five years and three months in prison. One trader was sentenced to two years and eight months, and the second trader received two years and four months. The court heard that the altered documents increased the recorded value of the vehicles by approximately £1.29 million, with one trader gaining £75,000 and the other £90,000.
A CPS lawyer stated that the three men exploited a trusted position to conceal vehicle histories and that the scheme risked undermining the vehicle registration system relied on by the public and law enforcement. A DVLA spokesperson said the former employee caused a serious breach of trust, was dismissed once the fraud was discovered, and that internal controls have since been strengthened.
