article_snippet.sent: Tamara Pacskowska used a fake driving licence and passport bearing
article_snippet.sent: Mrs Bagnall-Oakeley’s name and details in the scam.
article_snippet.sent: In a statement to the court, Mrs Bagnall-Oakley said: ‘My initial reaction upon learning about the fraud was that of shock that this could so nearly have succeeded.
article_snippet.sent: Prosecutor Peter Zinner described the scam as an ‘audacious and sophisticated’ attempt to steal the property, valued at about £950,000.
article_snippet.sent: Prosecutor Peter Zinner said: 'In so adopting the sole owner’s identity, purported to be the vendor of the property and instructed solicitors to sell the property for that sum and it was only the subsequent intervention of the police just before completion of the sale that prevented the property from being sold from under the owner
article_snippet.sent: It’s absolutely clear that there were others who lay behind this fraud who would have substantially benefitted from it and who used you to open yourselves up to high risk for relatively little reward.
article_snippet.sent: You took part willingly and for financial gain and provided photographs to be used on false driving licences and passports.
article_snippet.sent: Others played leading roles in this fraud which on one view was a very sophisticated property fraud.
article_snippet.sent: There was an anonymous tip-off to the solicitors who alerted the police and officers then lay in wait for you in November.