Sacked Royal Mail worker Aimar Wajad jailed for Stoke-on-Trent parcel scam
SACKED Royal Mail worker Aimar Wajad has been jailed for masterminding a 'lost' parcels scam to claim hundreds of pounds in compensation.
The 34-year-old worked at Royal Mail's Etruria call centre and enlisted friends to join his scam.
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JAILED: Aimar Wajad
They falsely claimed to have ordered goods online and then claimed compensation from Royal Mail when the 'parcels' were not delivered.
Wajad processed three compensation claims totalling £1,259 and then shared the payouts with his friends.
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But the scam was detected by Royal Mail with three more compensation claims totalling £1,200 awaiting payment and Wajad was arrested.
Now Wajad, of Keelings Road, Northwood, has been jailed for nine months after admitting fraud. He was also jailed for eight months after failing to declare a previous conviction for theft when he landed his Royal Mail job.
The sentences will run concurrently.
The fraudulent claims were submitted from November 2008 to May 2009.
John Gibson, prosecuting, told Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court: "The fraud was discovered when a witness from Royal Mail noticed inconsistencies in five claims she was considering. For example, the weight given for an Acer laptop was incorrect.
"She also noticed that the addresses of the sender and the addressee did not make sense. In some cases it would have been easier to take the parcel to the delivery address than the post office."
The court heard Wajad first enlisted friend Aneel Babar into his scam. Father-of-three Babar then called in three of his friends, Haylea Wood, Nicky Cartlidge and Jonathan Thompson.
Part of the first compensation payout was shared with Babar, while the other two were paid to 24-year-old Wood.
Cartlidge, aged 24, of Louvain Avenue, Sneyd Green, and Thompson, aged 34, of Peascroft Road, Norton, were never paid.
The four friends all admitted conspiring to defraud Royal Mail.
Anis Ali, representing Wajad, said: "He's a married man with little record."
Jailing Wajad, Judge Mark Eades said: "You were at the very centre of this fraud."
Babar, aged 34, of Eaton Street, Hanley, was given a four-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, and ordered to do 100 hours unpaid work.
Wood, of Biddulph Road, Harriseahead, and Thompson must complete 100 hours of unpaid work. Cartlidge was given 75 hours of unpaid work.
Following yesterday's sentence, a Royal Mail spokesman said: "We will always seek to prosecute the tiny minority of people who abuse their position.
"Royal Mail customers should be confident in our services and systems, but where we are alerted to problems, either through our own checks or from information supplied by our customers, we take decisive action to investigate."




Comments
by WilkesyJ
Tuesday, July 03 2012, 5:15AM
“I truly doubt that your time is in any way valuable. I wasn't asking you to point out what Americanised spelling is, I was asking to to show me where I had used it. Like everything else,I think the point was lost on you. By the way,us Brits use 'S', not 'Z'.
'Americanised', by the way, the English spelling is with a 'Z' not an 'S'. - No, you retard, the opposite applies. Was your Grammar School in Kentucky, you redneck chump?
I think you need to call the Grammar School and ask for your money back. Unless, as I suspect, you were only there in the capacity of a cleaner. You also appear completely unable to grasp the point of the analogy I made and you have again suggested that somebody who hates black people is not a racist. That definitely makes you an idiot. Racist is in fact the term given to a person who differentiates/ bases prejudices on different racial characteristics. The last time I checked, pigmentation of one's skin was a racial characteristic. You're obviously a nasty, inadequate little man in dire need of an education. Did your wife leave you for a black man or something?”
by mykidsfuture
Monday, July 02 2012, 9:29PM
“"Who's the idiot? Quite clearly you are. We could get into a discussion about the semantics of it but I really don't think you'd fare too well.If you think that hating black people doesn't make you a racist,
That comment is a pretty clear accusation you are making against me not an analogy.
Racisim is a term given to a person that has a hatred of a given race, with no regard to colour. Colour predujice on the other hand, is a hatred of people based on their skin colour, that is the difference. Pretty simple really to differentiate, the clue is within the words themselves; obviously not as simple as you though.
'Americanised', by the way, the English spelling is with a 'Z' not an 'S'.
Oh and by the way I'm not from Stoke-on-Trent nor was I educated here, please don't insult me.
I'm now tired of you and I sharn't waste any more of my valuable time responding to such a dick!!!!”
by WilkesyJ
Monday, July 02 2012, 9:01PM
“Oh dear....I didn't say you hated blacks, I used that as an analogy and asked you to explain the difference between racism and colour prejudice. You haven't been able to, because there isn't one. I think it's more likely that you don't know the correct spelling of certain words than it is that I have used any Americanised spellings, but I'll stand corrected if you can give me an example. I don't need a spellchecker, I paid attention at school. You on the other hand.....
"having been educated at one of the Countries leading Grammer school"
'Countries' is incorrect; you need to use the possessive singular, and that's not how you spell Grammar. It's quite clear you haven't been educated anywhere, and I don't believe for minute you were educated at one of the country's finest Grammar Schools. You know the country's leading Grammar Schools aren't in Stoke, don't you?
It's a shame that you didn't feel able to explain your fuzzy logic, it could have been quite entertaining. Oh well, I'd better get back to my hole!”
by mykidsfuture
Sunday, July 01 2012, 11:17PM
“by WilkesyJ
"Who's the idiot?
Quite clearly you are. Where in any of my posts do I even insinuate that I hate blacks? I don't, I merely state the facts and if you go back to my original post, you will se a FACT that it is a crime against the Crown to interfere with the Royal Mail. Explain how that comment is racist you K***
Consider this my last post because quite frankly the only racist tones on this site are coming from YOU. So go and crawl back into the little hole from whence you came as some of us have other things to do in life other than putting 2 & 2 together and coming up with 19.
Oh and by the way, looking at your posts your the one that actually uses the spellchecker, blantantly obvious really, when considering you have used the American spelling in some of your words.
I on the other, don't need or use a spell checker, having been educated at one of the Countries leading Grammer school. My only mistakes is trying to type too quickly and not taking the time to proof read.
D***”
by WilkesyJ
Friday, June 29 2012, 8:36AM
“Who's the idiot? Quite clearly you are. We could get into a discussion about the semantics of it but I really don't think you'd fare too well.If you think that hating black people doesn't make you a racist, then you're more retarded than I thought. You seem to be a fan of the crime pages on this site, so please, enlighten us all...how many convictions have you seen for 'Colour prejudiced aggravated assault''? No? Thought not. You really are embarrassing yourself now, and showing yourself to be the hateful little bigot that you are. So, just to prove what a cretin I am, please, using any sources you feel necessary, explain the difference. Try to make use of spell check or get an adult to help just to make sure it's intelligible.”
by mykidsfuture
Friday, June 29 2012, 12:21AM
“by WilkesyJ
Thursday, June 28 2012, 5:22AM
."Erm, it proves you have a foreign wife? If I'm married to a Belgian, but hate black people,I'm a racist aren't I"
No that doesn't make you a racist, it makes you colour prejudiced. You may call me an idiot but I know the difference between being racist and colour prejudiced. Now who's the idiot - cretin.”
by camband
Thursday, June 28 2012, 9:38PM
“You make a valid point mate. But the good news as far as I''m concerned as a non-believing nature boy ....is that this is yet another example of how Allah for the Muslims or God for the Christians -is not taken seriously by a growing number of 'believers' -where following the Koran or Bible is expected of them. Breakaway -free thought.
Rock on 'individuality'.”
by muzza1112345
Thursday, June 28 2012, 1:25PM
“Gotta love how the racists come out of the woodwork to comment when it's a story about a Pakistani. For example....This story of a Pakistani scamming Royal mail for £1,300 has 55 comments, compare that with a story on the front page about a WHITE man stealing a whopping £66,000 from a church & charity which has a measly 2 comments. Go on racists, red arrow my comment. You know who you are. Truth hurts.”
by CarrickBoy
Thursday, June 28 2012, 1:13PM
“As someone who worked alongside Aimar for his entire career at Trent House I feel qualified to offer "an" opinion (mine) on what his case tells us about the state of affairs that led to this unhappy episode.
As I have already written, although Aimar's activities were undoubtedly "criminal" I would suggest that the management team that chose to fast track this young man to a position of authority with a deal of speed and with little reference to the merit or ability shown by him should also be viewed in my opinion as equally culpable.
The figures tell the story of this unsophisticated crime and I could say unsophisticated young man. £1259 of fraudulent claims, have led to a custodial sentence and I would imagine a ruined future within the "regular" United Kingdom, job market.
I saw in Aimar, a classic case of being caught between two competing lifestyles. That of the traditional beliefs and culture of his strictly religious Islamic family, and that of the rather shallow, vacuous celebrity driven lifestyle, that any perusal of his twitter and facebook accounts would show. I remember this vividly when he proudly showed his "app" for both the Qur'an and Heat magazine side by side!
I have met many worse people than Aimar Hussain Wajad, and some of them were those who managed both he and I within Trent House. I am sure that his crime could only have been possible with the promotion, that saw him placed in position of trust and in an area of control where the lack of substance and morality within his character, as indicated by the rather confused sense of belonging that he felt, would ultimately lead to his criminal activity. Yes this man committed a criminal act, but those who allowed him to act in this manner, with relative ease, also in my opinion need to hang their heads in shame.”
by WilkesyJ
Thursday, June 28 2012, 5:24AM
“Mykidsfuture...I'd quite frankly be ashamed if I attracted green arrows. The last thing I want is for idiots like you to agree with me.”