Sonia Malhi: Last News

court cases our reporters have covered in February 2021.

Liverpool Echo reports.Then they splashed out on designer clothes, alcohol, lottery tickets and fancy car accessories with the details, claiming their own cards were damaged.Sometimes they'd keep the luxury items they'd bought with stolen money, but on other occasions they'd ask for refunds to get the cash deposited into their own accounts.Not even a nationwide coronavirus lockdown could stop the slick operation during its heyday, as the women set their sights on petrol stations and off-licences instead.Between October 2019 and May 2020, cops identified more than 150 fraudulent transactions across the north west, Yorkshire and Leicestershire.But they were rumbled in May when all three sisters and their accomplice Sonia Malhi, 38 (who was

direct to your inboxThree Mancunian sisters who conned businesses in Liverpool out of thousands of pounds are to be forced to pay back their ill-gotten gains.Sarah, Lynsey and Emmiline Burdon, from North Manchester, targeted luxury shops, restaurants, beauticians and hairdressers in the Liverpool ONE shopping centre and the city's Met Quarter, the Liverpool Echo reports.They stole thousands of pounds from their victims, then later splashed the cash on fags, booze and hundreds of lottery tickets.Sarah, 40, Lynsey, 36, and Emmiline, 29, were jailed last summer after admitting conspiracy to commit a near £80,000 fraud.Last week Sonia Malhi, 38, who was part of their gang and also headed her own splinter operation with other crooks, was also

direct to your inboxA prolific crook took the lead role in an audacious fraud which targeted luxury Lake District hotels, shops and restaurants.Sonia Malhi, 39, who had more than 100 previous convictions, travelled from her Greater Manchester home and headed up the scam to dupe businesses across Cumbria during January last year.This involved the use of stolen receipts from card terminal transactions made by innocent members of the public whose accounts were also then plundered.As accomplices used devious distraction techniques at numerous premises, Malhi covertly sought to enter card numbers manually, paying for expensive rooms at luxury hotels, splashing out on £75 bottles of champagne and requesting wrongly redirected refunds.During a

Liverpool Echo reports.

The detectives were supported by Cheshire Constabulary’s Economic Crime Unit. All four women, from Manchester, were charged with conspiracy to commit fraud along with a number of other offences.The charges relate to allegations of the fraudulent usage of stolen bank details that were allegedly used to purchase items at stores in Cheshire, Merseyside, Lancashire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester and Derbyshire.