cancer so he could steal more than half a million pounds to clear his debts has been jailed for 21 months.Peter Saad, from Nottingham, devised the sham in order to pay back £521,889 he owed to loan sharks, a court heard.
Chester Crown Court was told that between September 2018 and May 2019 the 32-year-old persuaded his friend to hand over large sums of cash for bogus projects.
The unnamed victim is the chairman and chief executive of an investments and credit group in Warrington, Cheshire, the court heard.
Saad began his fake news campaign by claiming his family was struggling to meet their mortgage repayments because of a pharmacy they had bought in America.He then made up a story about having had a loan from a well-known member of an.
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