An article on the website of London-based BusinessGreen reports that a Leeds, U.K.-based recycler has been sentenced to seven and a half years’ imprisonment for defrauding government-backed Producer Compliance Schemes out of £2.2 million.
The trial, Friday, 5 July 2016, found Terence Solomon Dugbo of TLC Recycling guilty of falsifying paperwork to claim funds for collecting and recycling more than 19,500 tonnes of household electronic scrap during 2011. Seized documents revealed that the firm claimed money for material collected from nonexistent properties and that vehicles used to transfer material were recorded as operating simultaneously in England, Northern Ireland and Scotland, according to the article.
“Terry Dugbo’s illegal activities defrauded legitimate recycling schemes out of significant amounts of money,” Dr. Paul Salter, senior environmental crime officer at the Environment Agency, said after the hearing, BusinessGreen reports. “He masterminded and fabricated a flow of false paperwork that claimed his business was collecting and recycling vast amounts of waste electrical goods when in fact he wasn’t.”
In addition to the sentence, Dugo is banned from acting as a company director for 12 years. TLC Recycling has also been liquidated, according to the article.
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