Two "greedy" businessmen who ran a scam to sell turkey as halal lamb meat have each been jailed for five years. Meat importer, Mahmudar Rohman, and his friend, Kamal Rahman, were responsible for 160,000 kilos of non-halal turkey being passed off as more expensive boneless halal lamb at wholesalers, butchers, takeaways and restaurants across Leicester, the East Midlands and beyond.
Rohman, 46, and Rahman, 54, were convicted of conspiring to defraud customers, by making false representations about the kind of meat being sold, between 2013 and 2014.
The scam, which netted estimated profits of between £380,000 and £700,000, was discovered in the wake of the horsemeat scandal that led to widespread checks being made and turkey DNA being found.
Rohman and Kamal Rahman who denied all allegations and have no previous convictions, were convicted unanimously by the jury of the conspiracy. Rahman was also found guilty of perverting the course of justice, by trying to persuade a customer to give trading standards false information about where the turkey came from.
