Tag: Police and trading standards to carry out checks on travel agents in Hajj fraud crackdown

Hajj fraud crackdown

Police and trading standards officers plan to carry out visits and spot checks on travel agents over the next few months in a new clamp-down on Hajj-related crimes, which rocketed 143% last year. Individuals planning pilgrimages to Mecca in Saudi Arabia were conned out of as much as £33,000 each, according to the national fraud […]