{"id":698704,"date":"2026-07-18T17:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T17:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/698704\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T17:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T17:12:09","slug":"fraudster-told-to-repay-5m-to-royal-mail-or-face-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/698704\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraudster told to repay \u00a35m to Royal Mail or face jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The defendant transferred nearly \u00a310m to himself from PPIL, which also bought properties in which he had an interest, Judge Bartle told the court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sandhu owned Rolls Royce and Bentley cars and lived in a mansion &#8211; Hadley Grange in Jordans, Buckinghamshire &#8211; which was seized by police and sold for \u00a32.6m in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following his arrest in 2017, the defendant sent money to Dubai to try to protect it from the authorities, Judge Bartle said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He lied to try to persuade the court that the \u00a3770,000 was not his asset or, if it was, that it was irrecoverable,&#8221; the judge added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2018, Sandhu also sold two flats in Richmond, south west London, for about \u00a3290,000 less than their true value, the judge said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Taking into account the Dubai money and the undervalue of the flats, Sandhu had \u00a35.1m available to pay to Royal Mail, the judge ruled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">PPIL, which benefitted from the fraud to the tune of \u00a367.3m, was ordered to repay slightly more than \u00a3865,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The defendant transferred nearly \u00a310m to himself from PPIL, which also bought properties in which he had an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-698704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698704","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=698704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}