A mum-of-three has been jailed for two years for conning holidaymakers into paying for fake Covid ‘fit to fly’ certificates at the height of the pandemic. Saranjeet Trina Kandola traded as ‘Travel Test Solutions Ltd’, a business that offered PCR tests for people costing between £60 and £149 per person.
But customers became suspicious the certificates they had received were fake, and so Warwickshire County Council Trading Standards launched an investigation. The Leamington Spa company, which advertised on social media, visited the homes of customers to take swabs that should then have been tested at a laboratory, reports Coventry Live.
However, no laboratory tests were ever carried out and the Covid ‘free’ certificates issued were worthless. An investigation uncovered that over a 17-day period, Kandola had agreed to provide at least 47 certificates obtaining almost £5,000. She only stopped marketing her services when she found out she was being investigated by Trading Standards.
