FSA bans East London broker for fraud

Karim applied for a mortgage of £480,000 telling the lender that his annual income was more than £100,000 – while at the same time declaring an annual income to HM Revenue and Customs of £30,000. As the £480,000 loan applied for was 16 times his declared income the FSA found he must have known that the application would not meet any lending criteria. It therefore seemed highly likely that he knowingly declared a false income of more than £100,000 as the only way to obtain a loan of that scale. Margaret Cole, enforcement director at the FSA, commented: “Mortgage fraud poses a serious r...