A man has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment in the UK this week for using fraudulent identities to take advantage of online gambling bonuses.
The Metropolitan Police reported that 35-year-old Andrei Osipau made almost £80,000 from online gambling after using fraudulent international passports, identity cards and false utility bills to open various online accounts.
Osipau also used online payment institutes to transfer the criminal gains from the online betting account, opening bank accounts under false names.
It is the first prosecution of its kind and Osipau was apprehended following a joint investigation by detectives from the Metropolitan Police Service Gambling Unit, Project Amberhill and the UK Gambling Commission.
The scam was identified in February when an online betting company received two UK passports bearing different names but the same image within 12 minutes of each other.
