Zafar Aslam

Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision

Zafar Aslam, an unqualified solicitor's clerk employed in personal injury litigation, was convicted at Manchester Crown Court on 29 April 1996 of conspiracy to defraud and sentenced to three years imprisonment. He was found to be the mastermind of a scheme making false insurance and personal injury claims. The Tribunal found the allegation substantiated and, on 17 July 1997, made a Section 43(2) order controlling his future employment within the solicitors' profession, and ordered him to pay costs of £1,110.37. The respondent did not appear but admitted the matter by letter.

Duties found breached:

• Honesty

Aggravating factors:

• Described by the sentencing judge as the 'mastermind' of a calculated, sophisticated fraud operation
• Invented fictitious plaintiffs and made fictitious/exaggerated personal injury and car hire claims
• Drew others (a doctor, a physiotherapist) into the scheme
• Sentenced to three years imprisonment