UPDATE this is the guy who i bought my car from,shocked or what!!!!
Luxury stolen car dealer jailed
Hussain boasted he had been "ringing" cars since he was 14
A car-ringer who is believed to have pocketed more than £1m by shipping luxury vehicles stolen from Britain has been jailed for three-and-a-half years.
Shakeel Hussain, 33, admitted charges of fraud and handling stolen cars which he arranged to be shipped to owners in the Middle and Far East and Africa.
He conducted the "ringing" operation from his home in St Paul's Avenue, Slough, Berkshire, the court heard.
Hussain was sentenced at London's Southwark Crown Court on Wednesday.
His activities finally came to light when an undercover police officer, posing as a would-be customer, was told he could be supplied with stolen cars a third off their normal value.
This was sophisticated, this was intelligent and potentially it earned you a lot of money
Judge John Price
Hussain, who boasted he had been "ringing" cars since he was 14, told the detective he could send him as many as five cars a week through a Malaysian "front company".
Police bought a Mercedes and two BMWs from him before arresting the 33-year-old and searching his home where they found small metal Vehicle Identification Number (Vin) tags.
Ben Douglas-Jones, prosecuting, explained although they had a legitimate purpose, they were also invaluable when it came to giving stolen cars new identities.
He said officers also recovered thousands of documents and computer files. Other inquiries revealed £1.8m had passed through his personal bank account and £500,000 through a business account.
Judge John Price said: "These offences came to light because of the excellent undercover police work."
Det Sgt Malcolm Ellis, of the Met Police, said: "We realised the widespread scope of his enterprise only when we searched his house, and then discovered the vehicles he had been fed by various unidentified car thieves had come from all over the country."
Hussain pleaded guilty to eight counts of possessing articles for use of fraud and a similar number of handling stolen car offences between 26 March, 2005, and 9 November last year.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/7412872.stm
