A fraudster who blew £175,000 on Riyad Mahrez’s bank card when he treated himself to a £20,000 trip to Ibiza, gambling and even trips to Nando’s, KFC and Greggs has been pictured.
It took the Premier League football star five weeks to realise the money had been taken and block the card which truck driver Sharif Mohamed, 32, had defrauded in 2017.
Mahrez was targeted after an ‘unknown person’ called up Barclays Bank, posing as the £200,000-a-week Etihad favourite footballer, and 우리카지노 ordered a replacement card in his name.
Mohamed travelled from his home in east London to Leicester, where Mahrez was playing at the time so large cash withdrawals from ATMs would appear less suspicious, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard.
Alex Matthews, prosecuting, said £175,830 was stolen from the player between August 16 and September 20, 우리카지노 2017 when the card was finally stopped.
It took Premier League football star Riyad Mahrez five weeks to realise the money had been taken and block the card which truck driver Sharif Mohamed (pictured), 32, had defrauded in 2017
Mahrez was targeted after an ‘unknown person’ called up Barclays Bank, 우리카지노 posing as the £200,000-a-week Etihad favourite footballer, and ordered a replacement card in his name.
Pictured: Mohamed
Mohamed indulged in a £20,000 trip to Ibiza, where he drank champagne at the Bali Beach Club restaurant and partook in a spending spree at designer boutiques.
Detailing the trip, Ms Matthews said: ‘It was a very nice holiday.
The massive majority of spending on this list is like going to places like Nikki Beach and spending on champagne at the bar.
‘Hotels, various beach bars, this is a holiday the defendant said in interview that he went on.’
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He had stayed at the Shangri-La hotel in London’s Shard and enjoyed meals at the Edward John Lucas restaurant, while also spending £1,400 on a single pair of Armani jeans.
Mohamed also took an expensive trip to the Aspers Casino in the Westfield Stratford City shopping centre in London, and bought several takeaway meals.
Mahrez – who played for Leicester City at the time – didn’t realise the money had been taken for more than a month.
Mahrez was said last week to have split from his wife before hooking up with fashion student Taylor Ward, 22 (pictured)— daughter of Real Housewives of Cheshire reality star Dawn, 46
A fraudster blew £175,000 on Riyad Mahrez’s bank card as he treated himself to a £20,000 trip to Ibiza, gambling and even trips to Nando’s, KFC and Greggs.
Mahrez is said to have split up with wife Rita (pictured)
