Global InformationAchilleas Kallakis information
Achilleas Michalis Kallakis | |
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| Born | Stefan Michalis Kollakis 3 September 1968 Ealing, London, England |
| Education | University of Buckingham |
| Known for | "Britain's most successful serial confidence trickster" |
| Spouse | Pamela A. Stachowsky (m.1995) |
| Children | 4 |
Achilleas Michalis Kallakis (born Stefan Michalis Kollakis on 3 September 1968) is responsible for the UK's largest ever mortgage fraud, of over £760 million, and has been called "Britain's most successful serial confidence trickster".[1] By making a slight change to his name, purporting to be related to an oil and property tycoon and using a corrupt lawyer, he was able to defraud banks into giving him mortgages on offices with inflated valuations.[2] He and his accomplice Alexander Williams were successfully prosecuted by the UK's Serious Fraud Office in 2013.[3] Kallakis and Williams succeeded in bypassing fraud and due diligence checks by the banks despite having a previous convictions for fraud in 1995 and warning being raised about their lawyer who escaped prosecution.[4]
- ^ Bowers, Simon; Hickey, Shane (16 January 2013). "Confidence trickster who defrauded banks out of £750m faces jail". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 September 2017 – via www.theguardian.com.
- ^ Bowers, Simon (16 January 2013). "Bogus Mayfair property tycoon convicted of £750m fraud". The Guardian.
- ^ "Achilleas Kallakis and Alexander Williams guilty of defrauding banks in property financing deals". Serious Fraud Office. 16 January 2013.
- ^ Bowers, Simon (1 April 2009). "Mayfair's Walter Mitty: Bogus title salesman to property tycoon". The Guardian.