A former police officer has pleaded guilty to his part in a scam through which he received thousands of pounds in payouts after deliberate vehicle crashes.
Kuldip Singh, 42, was a serving officer with the Metropolitan Police while part of a group which organised ‘crash for cash’ collisions and then made fraudulent claims for personal injury and vehicle damage compensation from insurance companies.
Singh fled the country after being dismissed without notice from the Met in November 2017 and was extradited from Georgia on March 4, with sentencing to take place at Southwark Crown Court on June 2.
Busola Johnson, Specialist Prosecutor with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) Special Crime Division, said that Singh showed a "sustained pattern of calculated dishonesty, carried out for financial gain and designed to deceive insurers, employers and the justice system itself".
In one such incident on March 11 2016, a member of the group, Raiyaan Anwar, drove his Tesco delivery van into the back of a white Citroen, which was being driven by Singh and contained four other passengers also involved in the scam.
Anwar, 32, admitted liability for the crash to his employer, which led to five fraudulent personal injury compensation claims totalling £33,362 - although only £912 was paid out.
Singh also ran a car hire company called ADK Supreme with another man, Alper Emin, 55, through which high-value vehicles were obtained on finance and rented out to individuals who would have been unable to pay for the vehicles themselves, according to CPS.
When one client of ADK Supreme crashed a rented Mercedes, Singh and Emin falsely alleged that a burglary had taken place at the company address and that the key to the vehicle had been stolen in order to avoid liability, later receiving £16,145 from the insurance company after making a false claim to cover the damage.
CPS said that three further cars leased by ADK Supreme were involved in collisions or issued with tickets for road traffic violations, with Singh falsely claiming that they had been cloned to avoid being held liable.
He also created a false police report that one of his leased cars had been cloned and persuaded a member of police staff to make the entry on the police database in an attempt to avoid suspicion.
Singh was dismissed without notice from the Met in November 2017 for gross misconduct.
The co-suspects, Anwar, Emin, Krishna Gnanaseelan, 31, and Singh Dehal, 31, remain at large after also fleeing the country, and have been prosecuted in their absence and their cases concluded.
Singh, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court 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.
He will be sentenced at the same court on June 2 2026.
Johnson 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.
“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.”
