Jailed cleric's sons £1m car scam
Three sons of jailed cleric Abu Hamza are due to be sentenced for a £1 million luxury car scam.
They and others targeted Mercedes, BMWs and Range Rovers and other expensive makes in long-stay car parks.
Hamza's sons Hamza Kamel, 22, and Mohamed Mostafa, 27, helped run the two-year fraud with stepson Mohssin Ghailam, 28.
Kamel and Mostafa, of Acton, west London, variously admitted fraud, handling stolen goods, and money laundering between January 2007 and November last year, while Ghailam, of Shepherd's Bush, west London, also pleaded guilty to fraud.
By pretending the vehicles were theirs, they tricked the DVLA into transferring ownership to an alias and sending new logbooks to front addresses.
Duplicate keys were then obtained from dealers and the cars stolen.
London's Southwark Crown Court heard the final stage involved selling them to unsuspecting buyers here and abroad, or using them to guarantee loans they later defaulted on.
Three other London men have admitted their involvement and are due to be dealt with as well.
Hamza, 50, who preached at a London mosque, was jailed for seven years in 2004 for soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred. He now faces extradition to the U.S. for allegedly setting up an Al Qaeda training camp.
Last year another of his seven sons, Yasser Mostafa Kamel, 18, narrowly escaped jail after admitting burglary.
