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A man who pretended to be a solicitor in an attempt to get a sizable debt quashed for another taxpayer has been jailed for 22 months.
Unemployed Nicholas Moss, who pretended to work for a London-based law group, forged a court document that purported to come from a High Court judge cancelling £19,000 in arrears to HMRC.
He also represented his ‘client’ at Willesden County Court, where a judgment was awarded in favour of the Revenue for the tax debt.
A man who pretended to be a solicitor in an attempt to get a sizable debt quashed for another taxpayer has been jailed for 22 months.
Unemployed Nicholas Moss, who pretended to work for a London-based law group, forged a court document that purported to come from a High Court judge cancelling £19,000 in arrears to HMRC.
He also represented his ‘client’ at Willesden County Court, where a judgment was awarded in favour of the Revenue for the tax debt.
Moss later issued to the tax department fake legal letters and papers that appeared to quash the debt. He then demanded repayment be made to his ‘client’
The 51-year-old Harlesden resident was arrested in June 2013. He was sentenced after pleading guilty to a charge of acting as a solicitor and being found guilty by a jury of making a false instrument under the forgery and counterfeiting act.
Moss’s actions led to his ‘client’ also being arrested by HMRC investigators.
