A gang of six fraudsters have been prosecuted for conning elderly residents out of £286,765 for over-priced and often unnecessary home improvement work. Guilty verdicts were returned at Nottingham Crown Court on June 28, following a lengthy trial, and they will be sentenced on Wednesday, September 6.
Jason Rowan (aged 51) previously featured in Nottinghamshire Live when his Ilkeston company was caught on camera 'targeting' elderly or vulnerable people'. EnergySave's Rowan said at the time, in May 2019, he decided to close the business because its reputation had been "ruined" after it appeared on BBC consumer affairs show Watchdog last year.
Rowan, of Town End Road, Draycott, Derbyshire, was convicted alongside Stephen Tomlinson, aged 55, of Dorchester Avenue, Derby, David Beeson, aged 53, of Bracknell Drive, Alvaston, Derby, Christopher Simpson, aged 58, of Erdington Hall Road, Birmingham, Bohdan Zacharko, aged 69, of High Holborn, London, and Philip Eremenko, aged 54, Thistledown Road, Clifton, were found guilty of various fraud and money laundering offences under the Criminal Law Act 1977, the Companies Act 2006 and the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.
