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Posted to the web: 19/05/2009 15:38:21
TWO crooked Zimbabwean insurance workers jailed for five-and-half-years in October last year have been ordered to repay £10,000 at the Sheffield Crown Court after cashing in customers' policies worth £655,399.

Edward Dzingai, 27, of Windy House Lane, Manor, and Gregory Maumbe, 27, of Fretson Road, Manor, cashed in policies of Norwich Union customers while working for the firm between September 2005 and October 2007.

Using the company's databases, they targeted policies belonging to customers the company no longer had addresses for. They wrote fake letters pretending to be the policy holders and asked for them to be cashed in.

Before they were caught, they had cashed in 28 policies while working at Norwich Union's Pomona House, off Ecclesall Road, in Sheffield.

The failed asylum seekers, who should not have been in the country and who used fake documentation to get jobs with the insurance firm, are both behind bars.

A Proceeds of Crime hearing at Sheffield Crown Court was told the value of the con was £655,399.

But Dzingai could only be ordered to pay back £3,000 and Maumbe £7,000 based on the actual assets police could attribute to the crooks.

Items seized from the pair by police included their cars.

Det Insp Graham Wragg, from South Yorkshire Police's economic crime unit, said the pair had always insisted they were not the masterminds of the scam and were working for somebody higher up the chain, who has not yet been traced.

He said: "The benefit of the crime was much higher than they were ordered to pay back but that is because although we can show how much they stole the amount they must pay back represents the value of the assets we could find.

"These two were not leading lavish lifestyles and all along they said they were not the mastermind and were working for somebody else."
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