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Travel insurance fraudster jailed
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A council benefits officer who lied to insurers 28 times to gain £88,000 has been jailed for two years.
Between 2007 and 2011, Umesh Gordhan took out travel insurance policies that covered holiday cancellations with multiple providers, an investigation by the industry and City of London Police's
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