Note: For legal purposes, a digital image is the same as a paper copy of a check, and there is no cost for Wells Fargo Online check images. A fourth child is due later this year.For checks that have posted to your account, you can view a copy by signing on to Wells Fargo Online and clicking the icon beside the check number on the Account Details page, or access Request Copies through the Accounts tab. He also had been able to afford to buy a property for investment and keep a wife, two children and a girlfriend who also had a child. He added that Budi failed to ‘cover his tracks’ because he thought he was ‘untouchable’ and even blamed his colleagues for the thefts.īudi also persuaded members of his family to lie to the jury for him, Judge Bevan continued. ‘It represents a systematic attack on City funds which you have realised did considerable damage on their operation and your employer the Royal Mail.’ ‘This appears to be one of the largest scales of theft of mail by a postman that the Royal Mail are aware of' Judge John Bevan at the Old Bailey It’s on a scale of efficiency and persistence way beyond the reach or skills of the average postman thief. ‘There is no knowing what the loss in fact is. ‘There was an effective chain of distribution, it was being done professionally and to make money. ‘These thefts and your destroying many documents in addition to those retrieved they were persistent, on a grand scale and with a carefully instated disposal scheme in place.’ ‘The jury took less than four hours to convict on all eight counts,’ Judge Bevan continued. Operating point: Mount Pleasant sorting office in Central London is one of the biggest in the world and organises mail for the Square Mile financial hub in the City of London Overwhelming evidence,’ Judge Bevan said.īudi told ‘obvious and transparent lies’ in the witness box to try and escape conviction, he added. You lacked the courage to admit your guilt in the face of Targeted financial post sent to banks, solicitors and even barristersĬhambers. ‘The economy relies on documents being able to be distributed safely and securely.’ The Royal Mail is a hallowed and valuable national institution, one of the jewels in the crown of this country. ‘It’s certainly one of the most sophisticated. Judge Bevan said: ‘This appears to be one of the largest scales of theft of mail by a postman that the Royal Mail are aware of. He wept uncontrollably as Old Bailey Judge John Bevan sentenced him, saying the theft was on a ‘massive scale’. The court heard piles of cheques worth over £230,000 were also found in Budi’s van when he was arrested and stolen mail was discovered in his car.īudi was earning just £375 a week as a Royal Mail employee but police recovered a total of almost £39,000 at his home and his girlfriend’s flat. One of the victims, International legal firm Clyde and Co, lost cheques worth £2,271,289 in just three months as Budi and his accomplices wrongly paid them into accounts they had set up. Investigation team set up secret cameras which filmed him taking the cheques with values ranging from £50 to £110,000.īudi is said to have deliberately targeted the Square Mile, one of the world's biggest financial hubs, during the scam. For three years, father-of-three Ajaz Budi, 33, helped himself to hundreds of parcels from the Mount Pleasant sorting office in Central London in one of the most 'sophisticated' criminal operations the postal service has seen.
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