Achilleas Kallakis
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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]
Achilleas Michalis Kallakis | |
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Born | Stefan Michalis Kollakis (1968-09-03) 3 September 1968 (age 55) Ealing, London, England |
Education | University of Buckingham |
Known for | "Britain's most successful serial confidence trickster" |
Spouse | Pamela A. Stachowsky (m.1995) |
Children | 4 |