"he chose to involve himself in a corrupt scam"
An ex-Met Police officer was jailed for four years and five months for his role in a ‘crash for cash’ scam involving fraudulent personal injury claims.
Kuldip Singh organised pre-arranged vehicle crashes while serving as a police officer before making fraudulent claims for compensation from insurance companies.
The scam involved a group deliberately crashing vehicles and receiving thousands of pounds through claims for personal injury and vehicle damage.
On March 11, 2016, group member Raiyaan Anwar was working as a Tesco delivery driver when he drove his delivery van into the back of a white Citroen driven by Singh.
Four other men involved in the scam were passengers in Singh’s car.
Anwar admitted liability for the crash to his then employer, Tesco, but did not disclose that he knew Singh or the passengers.
Five personal injury claims were subsequently made, totalling £33,362, although only £912 was paid.
Singh also ran a car hire company, ADK Supreme, with Alper Emin. The company obtained high-value vehicles through finance agreements before renting them to people who would probably have been unable to pay for the vehicles themselves.
After a client crashed one of the rented Mercedes cars, Singh and Emin falsely claimed that a burglary had happened at the company address and that the key to the Mercedes had been stolen.
There had been no burglary, but Singh subsequently made a false insurance claim for the damage and received £16,145 from the insurer.
Three other cars leased by ADK Supreme were involved in collisions or received tickets for road traffic violations. Singh falsely claimed the vehicles had been cloned to avoid being held liable.
He also created a false police report claiming that one of the leased cars had been cloned and persuaded a member of police staff to enter it on the police database in an attempt to avoid suspicion.
Singh was dismissed without notice from the Metropolitan Police Service on November 23, 2017, for gross misconduct.
He then fled the country and was extradited from Georgia on 4 March 2026.
His co-suspects, Anwar, Emin, Krishna Gnanaseelan, and Singh Dehal were also prosecuted, with their cases concluded.
At Southwark Crown Court on April 7, 2016, Singh pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud, fraud by false representation, two counts of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, two counts of perverting the course of justice and unauthorised access to a computer to facilitate the commission of further offences.
On September 18, Singh was jailed for four years and five months and disqualified from being a company director for five years.
Busola Johnson, Specialist Prosecutor with the CPS Special Crime Division, said:
“Kuldip Singh was a serving police officer when he chose to involve himself in a corrupt scam that saw fraudulent insurance claims made after pre-arranged crashes.
“On top of that, he made fraudulent and false claims about vehicles from his own car hire company.”
“This was not a momentary lapse of judgement but a sustained pattern of calculated dishonesty, carried out for financial gain and designed to deceive insurers, employers and the justice system itself.
“The public are entitled to expect the highest standards from those entrusted with enforcing the law, and Kuldip Singh’s actions represented a serious betrayal of that trust and caused significant financial harm.
“The Crown Prosecution Service will not hesitate to prosecute anyone, including those in positions of authority, who seek to abuse their role and undermine confidence in the justice system.”
