Sentences for men after massive chicken fraud in North Wales
Date of alert:
Wednesday, 7 February 2024
Crime Ref:
Force:
Wales - North Wales Police
Three men who worked together to fraudulently supply a company with more than £318,000 worth of chicken have been sentenced.
Darren Williams, 68, and Elliot Smith, 33, worked at the 2 Sisters Food Group in Llangfefni, Anglesey, and supplied the meat to Townsend Poultry.
More than 80 deliveries were made but the firm was not a customer of the 2 Sisters company and there were no records of the deliveries as Williams and Smith destroyed them, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.
The pair both pleaded guilty to fraud by abuse of position and were each given a two-year suspended sentence at Caernarfon Crown Court on Friday.
The owner of Townsend Poultry, Rana Dhalia, of Ambergate Road, Wolverhampton, had pleaded not guilty to acquiring criminal property.
