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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Neal Keeling

A Greater Manchester borough became the centre of massive scam in which drivers just paid to make tickets go away

It is a terraced house in Oldham in a small street. But it is suspected of being one of many in the area used for a scam which is operating nationwide.

Police believe the property has been used 140 times by criminals who are being paid hundreds of pounds by drivers to make speeding tickets "go away". Twenty two other addresses in the town are implicated in the same way and one in Accrington has been used 50 times.

The ruse has allowed dangerous drivers to avoid prosecution but an investigation has led to more than 120 drivers facing the justice they tried to avoid. Two people suspected of being organisers behind the racket have been arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice.

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