US EditionFormer AOG Technics Director Jailed for £7M Fraudulent Aircraft Parts Scheme
Jose Alejandro Zamora Yrala forged over 60,000 certificates to sell nearly £7 million in fake aircraft parts, causing £39.3 million in airline losses and global safety alerts.
- Ex-DJ Alec Zamora Yrala was sentenced for fraudulently trading airline parts through his company AOG Technics, resulting in £39.3 million losses for airlines like American Airlines and Ethiopian Airlines.
- Zamora forged authenticity certificates required by aviation authorities and supplied parts with forged documents, undermining aviation safety regulations.
- The Serious Fraud Office discovered the fraud when a bolt supplied by AOG would not fit an engine and found that Zamora had used a French company's name on thousands of certificates without their consent.
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Techno DJ jailed after selling 60,000 fake plane parts to major airlines
A former techno DJ is in jail after admitting to selling over 60,000 fake airplane parts to commercial airline companies around the world. A court in the United Kingdom sentenced 38-year-old Jose Alejandro Zamora Yrala to 56 months in prison for the scheme that even law enforcement officials had trouble comprehending. “Zamora’s operation risked public safety on a global scale in a way that defies belief,” Emma Luxton, director of operations for …
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UK aircraft parts company director jailed for fraud that led planes to be grounded
The director of a London-based airline parts company who used forged documents to sell tens of thousands of engine parts, leading planes to be briefly grounded over safety concerns, was jailed for four years and eight months on Monday.
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