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05/03/2009
'Lord' Guilty Of £229m Bank Theft Attempt
A self-styled Lord, who plotted to steal £229 million from a Japanese bank, has been imprisoned today for his part in a bid to pull off the world's biggest theft.
"Lord" Hugh Rodley - who bought the title - teamed up with a gang of raiders who targeted the multi-million pound fortune.
The 61-year-old from Tewkesbury was convicted of conspiracy charges dating back to 2004.
The gang targeted the City offices of the Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation.
Snaresbrook Crown Court heard the "bold and sophisticated" plot - which if successful, would have been the largest bank robbery carried out in the UK - was only foiled in the 11th hour by the complexities of the inter-bank money transfers.
Soho sex shop owner David Nash, 47, from Durrington, West Sussex, was also convicted.
The London court heard that while Rodley used a Soho sex shop boss to help front "recipient" bank accounts for the hoped-for windfall, an insider at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation unlocked its London offices so fellow conspirators could make "surreptitious" night-time visits.
Once there, they used a special software to corrupt the bank's computer system, then record the keystrokes of staff and find out their user names and passwords.
Rodley, from Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, and Nash, from Durrington, West Sussex, both denied conspiracy to defraud and conspiracy to transfer criminal property between 1 January and 5 October 2004.
Swedish national Inger Malmros, 58, who lives in Gran Canaria was cleared of both counts.
She told the court she knew nothing of two instructions - purportedly from her company - concerning the planned transfer of some of the Japanese bank's cash.
Rodley was found guilty of both counts, while Nash was cleared of conspiracy to defraud, but convicted of the second charge.
(JM/BMcC)
"Lord" Hugh Rodley - who bought the title - teamed up with a gang of raiders who targeted the multi-million pound fortune.
The 61-year-old from Tewkesbury was convicted of conspiracy charges dating back to 2004.
The gang targeted the City offices of the Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation.
Snaresbrook Crown Court heard the "bold and sophisticated" plot - which if successful, would have been the largest bank robbery carried out in the UK - was only foiled in the 11th hour by the complexities of the inter-bank money transfers.
Soho sex shop owner David Nash, 47, from Durrington, West Sussex, was also convicted.
The London court heard that while Rodley used a Soho sex shop boss to help front "recipient" bank accounts for the hoped-for windfall, an insider at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation unlocked its London offices so fellow conspirators could make "surreptitious" night-time visits.
Once there, they used a special software to corrupt the bank's computer system, then record the keystrokes of staff and find out their user names and passwords.
Rodley, from Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, and Nash, from Durrington, West Sussex, both denied conspiracy to defraud and conspiracy to transfer criminal property between 1 January and 5 October 2004.
Swedish national Inger Malmros, 58, who lives in Gran Canaria was cleared of both counts.
She told the court she knew nothing of two instructions - purportedly from her company - concerning the planned transfer of some of the Japanese bank's cash.
Rodley was found guilty of both counts, while Nash was cleared of conspiracy to defraud, but convicted of the second charge.
(JM/BMcC)
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