... a percentage of the takings. There were 131 attempts, 33 of which were successful, totalling £1,906,748. It is worth noting that all the attempts to bring about fraudulent transfers of funds would have been defeated if the accounts had been password-protected. On 11 March 1996, Sanjeev Rana, 23, and Sukjit Virk, 22, two of the organisers, were arrested and charged at Wantage in Oxfordshire where Virk had just delivered one of the forged letters of authority to a branch of Barclays Bank. The arrests followed a high speed car chase in Oxfordshire during which the defendants had thrown from the BMW car, which was their mobile office, various items of incriminating evidence. Rajeev Rana, 20, another organiser, was also arrested and charged on 11 March 1996, in Birmingham. The defendants continued with the fraud whilst on bail but sought information from Companies House by post rather than in person and arranged for the forged ...

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