{"id":178189,"date":"2025-10-04T00:34:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T00:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/178189\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T00:34:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T00:34:19","slug":"three-men-sentenced-after-100000-conned-out-of-victims-with-fraudulent-purchase-of-mobile-phones-and-watches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/178189\/","title":{"rendered":"Three men sentenced after \u00a3100,000 conned out of victims with fraudulent purchase of mobile phones and watches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghazanfar Khan, Kulwarn Chagger and Rajvinder Kandola defrauded victims by paying for high value goods with fake cheques between June 2020 and February 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Victims advertised mobile phones and watches on online marketplaces for sale.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/31016b86-8969-4cc6-b0a9-531014b3ec5d.png\"   alt=\"Ghazanfar Khan\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Ghazanfar Khan<\/p>\n<p>The trio used the same tactics for each victim whereby they would arrange a meeting location to purchase the item via bank transfer. However, on the day of the meeting, the bank transfer was not completed, and the defendants insisted a cheque would be paid into the victim\u2019s account instead.<\/p>\n<p>When the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmidlands.police.uk\/news\/west-midlands\/news\/news\/2025\/october\/three-men-sentenced-after-fraudulent-purchase-of-mobile-phones-and-watches\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">victim<\/a> checked their account, a pending payment was shown. The for-sale item was then handed over, to only discover at a later date that the money never entered their account as the cheque was never cleared.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ceb97217-1ff2-4b36-a346-3546155cd777.png\"   alt=\"Kulwarn Chagger\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Kulwarn Chagger<\/p>\n<p>Around 13 victims were linked by two common fraudulent cheques used, online marketplace names, phone numbers and common names used during the meet ups.<\/p>\n<p>Following CCTV and mobile phone work, we were able to connect the incidents to Khan, Chagger and Kandola.<\/p>\n<p>The three men were arrested and consequently charged.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/69544598-34a3-4d5f-a0b3-a356bb76ff2e.jpg\"   alt=\"Rajvinder Kandola\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Rajvinder Kandola<\/p>\n<p>Khan, aged 45, of Tividale Road, Tipton and Chagger, aged 51 of Park Hall Road, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/wolverhampton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wolverhampton<\/a> were charged with conspiracy to commit fraud by false representation and conspiracy to possess articles for use in fraud.<\/p>\n<p>They admitted the charges at an earlier hearing and Khan was sentenced to four years in jail, whilst Chagger was sentenced to two years in jail.<\/p>\n<p>Kandola, aged 52 of Tilbury Close, Wolverhampton was charged with possessing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/crime\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">criminal property<\/a> after admitting at an earlier hearing. He was handed a nine-month suspended sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ghazanfar Khan, Kulwarn Chagger and Rajvinder Kandola defrauded victims by paying for high value goods with fake cheques&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,924,59,2652,50,2654,79262,56,54,55,2653],"class_list":{"0":"post-178189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-gb","11":"tag-local-hubs","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-sandwell","14":"tag-tipton","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom","18":"tag-wolverhampton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}