article_snippet: Three fraudsters who used the names of more than 200 dead children to launder profits from an attempted £1m VAT fraud have been jailed for more than 16 years.
article_snippet: Saheed Oyeneye, 35, Rasaq Omotunde, 38, and Oluwakemi Adesaogun, 38, all from south east London, set up hundreds of bogus online HMRC accounts to ‘get rich quick’ off the public purse.
article_snippet: Rasaq Omotunde, 38 (left) and Saheed Oyeneye, 35, (right), both from south east London, were part of a fraud gang who used the names of more than 200 children to launder profits from an attempted VAT fraud .
article_snippet: In a scenario similar to that of the Frederick Forsyth novel, the trio men stole the identities of more than 200 dead British babies, before using the trio men names to bombard the government with tax repayment applications.
article_snippet: the trio men also targeted thousands of  members of the public as the trio men attempted to swindle £1m, Southwark Crown Court was told.
article_snippet: In total, the trio men managed to pocket around £250,000, which was banked across hundreds of accounts which had been set up under false names.
article_snippet: After the sentencing, Christopher Gill, Assistant Director, Criminal Investigation, HMRC, said: ‘This trio thought This trio were running a high-tech and sophisticated fraud using a series of addresses and internet cafes to set up accounts using stolen data.
article_snippet: This trio bombarded the system with applications for tax repayments from these fake accounts, in the hope of getting rich quick.
highlights_snippet: Trio, from south east London, set up hundreds of bogus HMRC accounts .
  
highlights_snippet: Trio, from south east London then filed fake tax repayment applications online under false names .
  
highlights_snippet: Trio, from south east London used names of cricketers and rugby union stars to swindle £250,000 .
  