The FSA has banned four mortgage brokers and imposed fined totalling £450,000 on three of them for knowingly using misleading and inaccurate information to secure mortgages.
Joseph Chinedu Nwosu, the founder, sole shareholder and sole director of Gemmini Mortgages, was fined £200,000 and banned from working in financial services for attempting 14 cases of mortgage fraud over a period of 26 months. He had obtained five regulated residential mortgages and one unregulated buy-to-let mortgage using inaccurate and misleading personal information. Jageet Kaur, who was a mortgage adviser employed by Gemmini, has also been banned from working in financial services for having knowingly submitted five false and misleading personal mortgage applications. Menawhil...
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