Life insurance agent found guilty in commission scam

Handed one year suspended sentence

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An insurance agent who sold fictitious life insurance policies to pocket thousands in commission payments has been handed a 12 month prison sentence suspended for two years.

Between July 2014 and March 2015, Bandagu Manzeke submitted 30 insurance policies using false names, addresses and details. For each policy incepted Manzeke would receive a commission payment and he pocketed just over £7,200 from the scam. He was working as a self-employed agent for broker Eunisure, who uncovered the fraud. Details were passed to officers in the Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department (IFED), part of the City of London Police, to carry out a criminal investigation. Manzeke of Church Lane, Hornsey, London, was sentenced on Wednesday 30 March to 12 months' imprison...

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