FRAUDSTER: BIGGEST IDENTITY THEFT IN LONDON! Nigerian with 128 fake identities Sing in UK Jail…Defraud banks to £636,000, * Dupes Mortgage Lenders & Govt Agencies * Involves in series of scams Poses as Tenant/Landlord to steal £168,575 (N45 million) belonging to 3 London Councils in same building Collects Payment for a Flat at flat in Essex worth £157,495 (N39 million) Receives cash of £60,000 (N15 million) from Lloyds TSB in series *Suspect bought houses in Europe-INVESTIGATION *“He’s a hardened criminal and crook”-British Police

FRAUDSTER: BIGGEST IDENTITY THEFT IN LONDON!

Nigerian with 128 fake identities Sing in UK Jail…Defraud banks to £636,000,

* Dupes Mortgage Lenders & Govt Agencies * Involves in series of scams

• Poses as Tenant/Landlord to steal £168,575 (N45 million) belonging to 3 London Councils in same building
• Collects Payment for a Flat at flat in Essex worth £157,495 (N39 million)
• Receives cash of £60,000 (N15 million) from Lloyds TSB in series
• Suspect bought houses in Europe-INVESTIGATION
• “He’s a hardened criminal and crook”-British Police

 BY LLOYD MUYIWA/CRIME WRITER, LONDON

END of the road has come for a Nigerian fraudster, who gave his name as David Peters (fake name) to British police upon his arrest. He was found upon arrest to have had in his possession 128 different identity cards belonging to various people, carrying various names but having his only pictures.

British Police

According to London Police reports, “a Nigerian with 128 identities was arrested by London Police. He gave his name as David Peters, 30, but had defrauded banks to the tune of £636,000 by using 128 different identity cards. Police investigation revealed that Daniel Peters
had in a series of scams duped banks, mortgage lenders and government agencies, disguising with different identities.”

Suspect obtained 74 fake licenses…his crimes

The police told the court in London that Peters obtained 74 fake licenses after applying for them at a string of rural post offices. The Nigerian also stole £168,575 (N45 million) in benefits from three London councils by claiming to be both tenant and landlord at the same address.

Peters also got £250,000 (N62.5 million) mortgage for a house in Edgware, North London and another mortgage on a flat in Essex worth £157,495 (N39 million). Also, he took more than £60,000 (N15 million) from Lloyds TSB in series. The London police claimed that the Nigerian
committed these frauds since 2002 through December last year till now when he was nabbed.

Peters name Accomplices

Sensing that the end had come, Peters named Oluseyi Jeremiah Adebayo on court documents admitted 29 of the charges of fraud and being in possession of false identification documents. Police detective Inspector Richard Fisher of City of London said after the hearing: “This is the biggest case of identity theft we have ever investigated. The sheer number of the fake identities we discovered are evidence of how Peters was a full time fraudster funding a life of excess at the expense of others.”

Peters fake names mentioned

Police investigation revealed that Peters was also known as Jerry Alfred Zaandam, Goke
Jerry Adeyimi, David Johnson Brown, Kevin Michael Peters, John Donald Nelson, Desmond
Brown Jackson, etc is a hardened criminal. The police said they have brought an end to Peters day of deceit and warned others who like to act as someone they are not as a means to commit crime.