Prevention of Fraud in Travel - PROFiT is part of the Metropolitan Police OPERATION STERLING working closely with OPERATION PODIUM & the City of London Police

Operation Neon

Operation Neon - The Travel Industry and the Metropolitan Police working together.

PROFiT successfully worked with the Metropolitan Police to convict four serial fraudsters in 2008. Christakis Philippou, Timothy Entwistle, Peter Kemp and Evangelia Liogka all received substantial prison sentences for their roles in the running of 5 businesses between 2004 and 2006.

The companies named in this case were:

    Ciao Travel trading under the name Sun [2004] - 2035 victims, losses 1.8 million

    Onshine trading under the name Sunsplash [2005] - losses 1.8 million

    Grayrise Associates trading under the name Elite Travel [2005] - losses 1.7 million

    Orange Sun Ltd trading under the names holidays4under200pound.com, unbeatableholidays.com [2006] - losses 620,000

    Sun Orient trading under the name sunmed-resorts.com [2006] - no losses as police action taken.
Passing sentence Judge Andrew Goymer said all four had taken part in "what I can only describe as a cynical and greedy fraud".

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