Three men, thought to have run the country’s largest ever counterfeit coin operation, have been jailed for between two and seven years.
More than 1.6 million metal disks were found by police in a shipping container parked in Picks Hill Waltham Abbey in May last year, with a car containing £30,000 worth of completed coins discovered nearby.
Kevin Fisher, 53, of Rags Lane in Goffs Oak, was sentenced today at Southwark Crown Court to five years in jail for possession of counterfeit currency, and seven years for possession of items to make counterfeit currency, to run concurrently.
Daniel Sullivan, 28, of Bancroft Chase in Hornchurch was sentenced to three years imprisonment.
Their co-conspirator, Mark Abbott, 44, of Cedars Park Drive in Edmonton pleaded guilty at an earlier trial and was sentenced to two years.
More to come.
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