Barnt Green gambler in laundered money scam jailed
Mar 9 2009 by Mark Cowan, Birmingham Mail
A £100 MILLION professional gambler who used his high stakes lifestyle to help launder dirty money for criminal gangs was today behind bars.
Jatinder Singh Batth, known to pals as Micky Singh, gambled at top casinos in Birmingham and London on key horse races and football matches to clean the dirty cash from crime gangs.
The 39-year-old from Billy Lane, Barnt Green, used his reputation as a career gambler to pull off the scams.
Batth was jailed for 18 months at Birmingham Crown Court after being convicted last month of money laundering offences under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
He was the eighth person to be sentenced for their part in the scam. The other seven members, including those who set up the scam, received jail sentences totalling more than 32 years.
The conmen, from Sutton Coldfield and Walsall, netted a whopping £1.8 million in a VAT scam and more in a money laundering operation. They set up a fake mobile phone firm and then applied to claim back VAT on phones which was never paid in the first place.
