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A THURROCK man who targeted more than 500 girls on Snapchat over the course of five years has been jailed for 11 years.
Akash Sondhi, 27 targeted 574 victims from across the globe – including the UK, Australia, Hong Kong, Romania and beyond. Some of his victims have still not been traced.
Between 2015 and 2020, Sondhi would hack into the Snapchat accounts of girls and young women, aged between 16 and 25, and blackmail them into sending him intimate images, or he threatened to expose existing images to their friends and family in their phone contacts.
His address in Hedingham Road, Chafford Hundred, was raided by officers from our Cyber Crime Unit on 19 March last year when several victims made reports to us.
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Wealthy haulage boss Thomas Maher was today jailed (Image: PA)
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A HAULAGE firm boss from Woolston who bragged about being involved in organised crime for over 20 years has been handed a lengthy jail term. Thomas Maher paid himself less than minimum wage for tax purposes, but lived a luxurious lifestyle spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on cars, holidays and jewellery. The 40-year-old was targeted by the National Crime Agency as part of Operation Venetic – the UK law enforcement response to the takedown of encrypted global communications service EncroChat.
Maher was hauled before Liverpool Crown Court this morning, Tuesday, after pleading guilty at an earlier hearing to two charges relating to the import of class A drugs into the UK and two charges of money laundering.
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A haulage firm owner who bragged about being involved in organised crime for over 20 years has been jailed for more than 14 years for moving drugs and dirty cash across Europe.
Thomas Maher, aged 40, of Wiltshire Close, Warrington, who paid himself less than minimum wage for tax purposes but lived a luxurious lifestyle spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on cars, holidays and jewellery, was targeted by the National Crime Agency as part of Operation Venetic – the UK law enforcement response to the takedown of encrypted global communications service EncroChat.