It may be that to enhance his sense of esteem, or just out of frustration, a lack of job satisfaction, status and income, Mahtani fell prey to temptation There is no other way to explain what he has done.”. His girlfriend earned much more than he did and had bought the house they lived in.Ali Bajwa, for the defence, said: “His income was nowhere near a match for hers. To begin with he was happy in his new job, but within weeks he realised that he now had the means to deal with a burgeoning sense of financial frustration. He also admitted two charges of making indecent photographs of children and possessing them with intent to distribute.Mahtani’s accomplices, Shahajan Miah and Shaidal Rahim, both 26, and from Enfield, north London, pleaded guilty to one of the conspiracy counts and each was jailed for four years.Judge Simon Smith said it was a great pity that three people of such “considerable ability” had misused their skills for a criminal enterprise.The court was told that in April 1998 Mahtani joined Checkline, a company that processed card transactions for Heathrow Express. Much of the information was electronically encoded on to cloned credit cards to fund spending sprees in Britain and abroad. Most of the money went on buying cigarettes on the Continent which are thought to have been brought back to Britain and sold for a profit.Mahtani, from Watford, pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to defraud central clearing banks and other financial institutions between April 1998 and September 2001. A computer expert who masterminded what is believed to be Britain’s biggest credit card fraud in an attempt to impress his girlfriend was jailed yesterday for nine years.
Sunil Mahtani, 26, was so frustrated by the financial gulf between him and his girlfriend, a merchant banker, that he teamed up with two other men to commit a £2m fraud, Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court was told.Over the next three and a half years he downloaded details of nearly 9,000 credit cards and passed them to his accomplices.

Of all committees, the Intelligence and Security Committee is the only one whose reports have to be vetted, edited and censored by the Prime Minister before publication,” he said.”An urgent investigation must be instituted. Once again, the Downing Street machine appears to be manipulating reports of parliamentary committees.”He added that if the Evening Standard report was correct, it was “very serious” for Mr Hoon.Liberal Democrat deputy leader Menzies Campbell also warned that Mr Hoon’s position in the Government was at stake.”If these reports are true, then it is difficult to see how Mr. Hoon can survive,” he said.The MoD said: “We don’t comment on leaks. The final version of the report is published tomorrow.”Last week the Hutton Inquiry heard evidence from his own special adviser that Mr Hoon was present at a meeting in the Ministry of Defence when the plan to confirm the scientist’s name to journalists was discussed.In his evidence to the committee, Mr Hoon had made no mention of the meeting, prompting speculation that he will be summoned back for further questioning when Lord Hutton begins phase two of the inquiry next week.. Unlike normal select committees, it operates within the “ring of secrecy” and reports to the Prime Minister rather than direct to the House of Commons.Today’s disclosures come the day after the report was handed to No 10 and will reinforce the impression that Mr Hoon is being lined up as the political “fall guy” in the Kelly affair.Tory deputy leader Michael Ancram said No 10 appeared to be “manipulating” the ISC report for its own purposes and called for a leak inquiry.”Such a leak is a very serious matter. about the process through which members of DIS can express concerns about the misuse of intelligence.”It went on: “How should we respond? Recommendation: that the Secretary of State notes these concerns were fully aired as part of the process of reaching consensus within the DIS and within the JIC (Joint Intelligence Committee).”The ISC was said to have found that Mr Hoon’s actions were “misleading” and “unhelpful”.Leaks from the ISC are rare. He paid tribute to Mr Hoon, saying that under him British armed forces had won a “magnificent victory” in Iraq.Mr Blair received the committee’s report yesterday but the spokesman refused to comment on how widely it had been circulated within Downing Street.According to the Evening Standard, Mr Hoon denied knowing of any concerns within DIS about the dossier despite a warning from a senior official that this issue was likely to be raised when he came before the ISC.It quotes a memo from the deputy chief of defence intelligence Martin Howard, which stated: “The ISC is likely to probe the Secretary of State …

10 official, the spokesman replied: “I don’t recognise that quote, all I will say is we should wait for the full report – and not just out of respect for the work that has been done by the ISC but I think it’s always a dangerous exercise to judge reports on leaks.Mr Blair told the Commons this afternoon that it was “completely untrue” that anyone in Downing Street had put an account of the ISC report into the newspapers. Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon is facing accusations of giving “misleading” evidence to a Parliamentary inquiry into Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, it was reported today. For the past six years this has not been a matter of any anxiety for me because of the stable occupation of the other flats, but I would be concerned if one of these flats was now occupied by a large number of tenants with a rapid rate of turnover.”Although I am no longer in government, I remain very prominent in public life and it is important for me that my home base is a place of privacy where I am secure from any form of confrontation.”. He wrote: “During my period as Foreign Secretary, the Home Office secured my flat by alarms and strong locks, but were concerned that the stairwell represented a point of vulnerability.