A man has been jailed for his role in a £1 million credit card fraud scheme.
Philip Lam was due to be sentenced in March 2021 but failed to appear at court while co-accused Steven Noone received four months and nine years.
The 31-year-old, of no fixed abode, absconded to Spain where he was finally arrested in Marbella last month and subsequently extradited back to the UK.
He was collected by Merseyside Police at Gatwich Airport on Wednesday and finally sentenced to four years and 11 months behind bars on Thursday.
Lam and Noone had actively traded in and used stolen credit cards in order to purchase goods or services on behalf of third parties who contacted them.
The pair used WhatsApp, ICQ and social media in an operation that harvested details from thousands of cards later used to book flights, hotels and goods.
Money generated by the scheme was then laundered by Lam through various gambling accounts and a ‘mule’ bank account in order to conceal payments.
Some of the cash was converted into BitCoin while Lam and his family flew on a number of international flights, paying for journeys with compromised credit cards.
Suspicions first arose when Jet2 noticed over 20 flights booked online without the knowledge of a legitimate card holder between May and September 2016.
Lam and Noone were arrested and their computers seized on July 4, 2017. Noone’s was found to contain the details of more than 1,100 cards in the…
