Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Money Laundering |
Sentence: |
22 months |
Years Imprisoned: |
0.67 |
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Year Convicted: |
2008 |
Year Cleared: |
2011 |
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United Kingdom |
County or Region of Crime: |
England |
City of Crime: |
Stafford |
Result: |
Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary of Case: |
"Urfan Akhtar pled guilty in April 2008 to money laundering. Akhtar was sentenced to 22 months in prison and fined £96,000. He was released after 8 months. Akhtar's lawyers appealed that he had been violated the statute he had pled guilty to violating. In January 2011 England's Court of Criminal Appeal quashed Akhtar's conviction, ruling that he was not guilty of the statute he had been convicted of violating." |
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"In January 2011 England's Court of Criminal Appeal quashed Akhtar's conviction," |
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Age When Imprisoned: |
34 |
Age When Released: |
35 |
Sex: |
Male |
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Information Source 1: |
"Mortgage broker jailed for money laundering has conviction quashed, The Sentinel (UK), January 31, 2011" |
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http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/news/BROKER-S-JAIL-TERM-QUASHED/article-3162298-detail/article.html |
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