Cancer-faking banker jailed for £1.8m fraud

A former banker who faked having terminal cancer as part of a series of scams worth a combined £1.8million has been jailed for almost seven years.

Rajesh Ghedia, 42, said he would be dead within a year, faking medical documentation to claim insurance money between October 2020 and May last year. He also took money from seven people, including a relative, by encouraging them to invest in non-existent products.

He was jailed yesterday at Southwark Crown Court for six years and nine months over 30 combined counts of fraud. Judge Deborah Taylor, sentencing, called Ghedia a “persistent fraudster and liar”.