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Electric waste operator jailed over £2.2m recycling fraud

Jocelyn Timperley
clock 18 July 2016 •
Electric waste operator jailed over £2.2m recycling fraud

Leeds waste operator receives record jail sentence for environmental crime, after illegitimately claiming funds from government-backed Producer Compliance Schemes

A Leeds waste operator has been jailed for seven and half years, after defrauding government-backed recycling schemes out of £2.2m. Terence Solomon Dugbo, 45, of High Ash Avenue in Leeds, was handed...

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