INLA link in CV fraud
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• Dealers are being urged to check all banker's drafts carefully after a well-organised fraud left a Scottish trader £30,000 out of pocket.
Specialist dealer Ronald Cowan of Dunfermline handed over the keys of a Range Rover SE to a man from Eire in exchange for a banker's draft made out for 230,500. Two days later he realised the draft was a counterfeit.
"We were almost put out of business," says Cowan. "Even though I am covered for theft, this was classified as fraud and so I was left without a penny of compensation."
A counterfeit banker's draft carrying the same number had previously been used to buy a truck and two trailers in Edinburgh for 289,000. Cowan says: "Dunfermline police have hinted that the man may have National Liberation Army connections in Ireland.