on April 19, 2011 11:06 AM

http://www.wharf.co.uk/2011/04/fraudster-sentenced-for-games.html

A conman has been jailed after defrauding the Olympic Delivery Authority of more than £2million.

Ansama Kamara, 31, from Sierra Leone, appeared at Southwark Crown Court on Monday and was sentenced to three and a half years in prison after admitting money laundering.

He was part of a gang who called up the Olympic group and said they worked for Skanska, a contractor on the site.

They asked for transactions to be paid into a different account and gave the details. The gang received £2.3m but Kamara was discovered by transfer bureau officials when he tried to wire £2m to Nigeria.

A spokesman for the ODA said it has managed to get back nearly all the cash.

"Early identification by the ODA greatly reduced the potential impact of this fraud with almost all of the monies recouped shortly after it occurred last summer," he said.

"Throughout the project we have worked with the Metropolitan Police Service to develop and refine our systems to meet the changing fraud risks and will continue to do so."