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UK aircraft parts company director pleads guilty to fraudulent trading
Jose Alejandro Zamora Yrala admitted defrauding customers by supplying counterfeit parts for CFM56 engines used globally, prompting multiple international aviation safety alerts in 2023.
- Jose Alejandro Zamora Yrala, director of AOG Technics, admitted supplying counterfeit plane parts that airlines around the world subsequently installed.
- Between January 2019 and December 2023, court documents say Zamora Yrala defrauded customers by falsifying paperwork while supplying maintenance providers and parts suppliers.
- The fake parts targeted the widely used CFM56 engine, used on Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 jets, prompting safety alerts from the UK Civil Aviation Authority, US Federal Aviation Administration, and European Union Aviation Safety Agency and grounding hundreds of flights.
- He was granted conditional bail and will appear for sentencing at Southwark Crown Court on February 23; court papers list Zamora Yrala, 37, of Virginia Water in Surrey as the defendant.
- The UK Serious Fraud Office is investigating alongside Portuguese authorities while regulators issued safety alerts, with Emma Luxton, director of operations at the SFO, saying the fraud `threatened trust in the aviation industry and risked public safety on a global scale`.
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