direct to your inboxA conman who targeted plant hire and car tyre firms in an 'organised and sophisticated' £340,000 fraud is behind bars.Father-of-three Robert Salinger, 37, used false identities and posed as existing customers to rent industrial plant hire equipment and buy tyres.He negotiated credit agreements or arranged for payments to be made at later dates, but goods were quickly 'moved elsewhere' after delivery, a court heard.The court heard that Salinger posed as an existing customer to place an order for three fork-lift trucks worth £38,000 from a company.The trucks were delivered to an industrial estate in Bury but by the time staff began to fear they had been duped and checked the address, they were 'gone', Manchester’s Minshull.
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