Taheer Sardar was jailed for 18 months for perverting the course of justice at Southwark Crown Court today. Mr. Sardar pleaded guilty on May 7, 2024.
Mr Sardar was interviewed by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as part of an investigation into a complex boiler room scam that defrauded 120 investors of £1.3m.
Three people, Mr Mirza, Mr Solaja and Mr Vickers were subsequently convicted and sentenced to 23 years for this fraud following a prosecution by the FCA.
In his interview, Mr Sardar, acting with Mr Mirza, provided a forged document, which he claimed was signed by ‘Mohammed Khan’. Mr Sardar sought to use the document to bolster the defense put forward by Raheel Mirza and Opeyemi Solaja, who claimed – without evidence – that someone named ‘Mohammed Khan’ was the architect of the scam they were involved in.
The FCA did not find that Mr Sardar was involved in the fraud itself, but provided the document to mislead the FCA.
Sentencing Mr Sardar on 10 May 2024, the judge, Mr Recorder Gavaghan, observed that:
“This was an elaborate attempt using a forged document to subvert the course of justice…[it was] a very serious offense which strikes at the very core of the legal system.’