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Ex UK cop Kuldip Singh pleads guilty in ‘crash for cash’ fraud
Singh will be sentenced by the Southwark Crown Court on June 2.
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Jeffin T. Kaleekal - Sat, 11, Apr 2026
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Former U.K. police officer, Kuldip Singh, pleaded guilty to charges of fraud, on April 7, after he was arrested for his involvement in fraudulent personal injury claims after deliberate vehicle crashes.
42-year-old Singh, while working as a Met Police officer, was part of a group which organised pre-arranged collisions with vehicles and then made fraudulent claims for compensation from insurance companies.
The Crown Prosecution Service noted that the scame, dubbed '‘crash for cash’, has cheated insurance companies of thousands of pounds in personal injury and vehicle damage compensations.
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In 2016, a Tesco delivery driver, an associate of Singh, purposefully crashed his delivery van into Singh's car, with five passengers inside the car. All 6 individuals inside the car were involved in the scam and made injury compensation claims to the tune of £33,362 (USD 44,888), however, only £912 (USD 1,227) was paid.
Singh also ran a car hire company called ADK Supreme that financed high-value vehicles and rented them out to high-risk clients. To avoid liability for crashes and traffic violations, Singh made multiple false insurance claims, fabricated a burglary story, falsely alleged vehicle cloning, and even created a fake police report by persuading a police staff member to log it in the official database.
Singh was fired from the Metropolitan Police Service in 2017 for gross misconduct and then he fled to the country to avoid prosecution. However, he was found and extradited to the U.K. from Georgia on March 4, 2026.
Singh was presented before the Southwark Crown Court where he pleaded guilty to charges of 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.
Busola Johnson, Specialist Prosecutor with the CPS Special Crime Division, 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."
Johnson continued, "This was not a momentary lapse of judgement but a sustained pattern of calculated dishonesty, carried out for financial gain and designed to deceive insurers, employers and the justice system itself."
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