Local Man Aged 78 Charged with Fraud and Money Laundering
Among seven accused after investigation by South East Regional Organised Crime Unit
Two men from Shepherd's Bush and Hammersmith, one aged 78, are among seven who have been charged with a total of 24 offences, including fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud and money laundering, following a wide-spread investigation by the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit, or SEROCU.
The men were charged in relation to an investigation into the cloning of credit cards and driving licences belonging to over 70 people from across the south, located in Dorset, East Sussex, Hampshire, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Sussex.
All these offences occurred between between September 2017 and August 2018.
The two men from Hammersmith are Peter Heather, aged 78, of Hazlitt Road, close to Olympia, who was charged with five counts of fraud and Kenneth Korsah, aged 42, of Goldhawk Road, charged with one count of conspiracy to commit fraud and one count of fraud.
A third Londoner, Zakiyyah McCurbin-Myers, aged 20, of Garton Place, Wandsworth, London was charged with one count of fraud, along with three men from West Sussex and one of no fixed abode.
All seven will appear at Crawley Magistrates' Court on 12 February.
January 23, 2020