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Urfan Akhtar

 

Charge:

Money Laundering

Sentence:

22 months

Years Imprisoned:

0.67

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

2008

Year Cleared:

2011

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

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."

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"In January 2011 England's Court of Criminal Appeal quashed Akhtar's conviction,"

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Was Perpetrator Identified?

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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