Canoe wife's cash offer.LAWYERS for North East canoe fraudster fraudster Noun a person who commits a fraud; swindler Anne Darwin today offered to repay pounds 591,838 she made from the scam she staged with her husband John. Darwin, 57, of The Cliff, Seaton Carew Seaton Carew is a small seaside resort within the borough of Hartlepool, England. It is situated on the North Sea coast between the town of Hartlepool and the mouth of the River Tees. , near Hartlepool, conned insurance companies after helping her husband stage his death in a fake canoeing accident. The repayment offer was made during a Proceeds of Crime Act hearing at Leeds Crown Court today. John Darwin will pay a nominal sum of pounds 1. Anne Darwin, 57, is serving a six-and-a-halfyear sentence at Low Newton women's prison in Durham after a jury last year found her guilty of six counts of fraud and nine of money laundering The process of taking the proceeds of criminal activity and making them appear legal. Laundering allows criminals to transform illegally obtained gain into seemingly legitimate funds. . John Darwin, 58, was jailed for six years and three months after admitting seven charges of deception. The couple, who have relatives in Monkseaton, embarked on a new life in Panama after Mr Darwin faked his death in March 2002 by vanishing off the coast. He turned up at a UK police station in November 2007, claiming he was a missing person with amnesia. Earlier this year they lost appeals against their jail sentences. |
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