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Babatunde Adu, a Nigerian based in Bexley, south-London, has been handed a six-year jail sentence for laundering almost one million pounds in a year through bank cards and dating scams.

Adu’s house was searched in October 2016 by UK police after intelligence suggested he had used compromised cards to buy £15,000 worth of electronic goods.

The police found credit cards and fraudulent documents, including a driver’s licence with Adu’s picture but with a different name.

On further research of the name, the police found a bank card used in 2015 to receive £50,000 from a dating fraud and £900,000 in a bank account during the previous year.

News Shopper reports that Adu was found guilty of disguising criminal property at Inner London Crown Court. He has already admitted charges of converting criminal property, fraud by false representation and possession of a fraudulently obtained identification document.

The 38-year-old was sentenced to six years and four months in prison.

Damian Ward, detective constable of the dedicated card and payment crime unit, said: “Adu was a career fraudster who had falsely obtained money through a variety of means and I am delighted with this conviction.

“This sentence should send a message to any would-be fraudsters that you will be caught and punished.”