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SHAOBO QIN COMMITTED A 'LARGE SCALE' FRAUD BY ‘DELIBERATELY AND SYSTEMATICALLY’ ENTERING FALSE DATA 16:54, 02 Jun 2025 A fraudster has been given just two months to find more than
£250,000 or face three years in prison. Shaobo Qin faces the race against time after he claimed payments for disposing of waste packaging which did not exist. The 42-year-old, from Sutton
Coldfield, was a director of plastics and recycling exporter EDU Case Ltd, based at the Droicon Trading Estate at Portway Road, Rowley Regis. READ MORE: TERRIFYING MOMENT GUNMAN OPENS FIRE
IN CITY RESIDENTIAL STREET Qin was found to have ‘deliberately and systematically’ entered false data on the Environment Agency’s National Packaging Waste Database (NPWD) for non-existent
waste exports. He and his company made more than £255,000 from false entries between January 1 2022 and January 31, 2023, having claimed to have exported 1,239 metric tonnes of plastic waste
in 2022. Article continues below In reality, the company only exported 453.60 metric tonnes. The fraud emerged in an audit conducted by Environment Agency officers in 2023. GET BREAKING
NEWS ON BIRMINGHAMLIVE WHATSAPP, CLICK THE LINK TO JOIN A Birmingham Crown Court judge said ‘this was without doubt deliberate offending and pre-planned’ and there had been a ‘significant
undermining of the regulatory regime’. The judge accepted Qin had pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity and that money had been put aside to repay the financial benefit made. As well as
being ordered to pay a Proceeds of Crime confiscation order of £255,057, EDU Case Ltd was fined £200,000 ‘to mark the seriousness of the offending’. The Environment Agency was awarded
£21,995 in investigation costs – a total bill of £476,995. Qin pleaded guilty to fraud by false representation and was given a two-year prison sentence, suspended for 18 months. He was
ordered to pay back £255,057 within two months or face three years in prison. He was also disqualified as a director for four years and ordered to complete 200 hours of unpaid work. GET THE
LATEST SUTTON COLDFIELD NEWS DELIVERED DIRECT TO YOUR INBOX Sham Singh, senior environmental crime officer for the Environment Agency, said: “This case shows the Environment Agency will
pursue individuals and their enterprises who profit illegally. Article continues below “This was a fraud on a large scale and undermines legitimate business and the investment and economic
growth that go with it. “We support legitimate businesses and are proactively supporting them by disrupting and stopping the criminal element backed up by the threat of tough enforcement as
in this case. “If anyone suspects a company is doing something wrong, please contact the Environment Agency on 0800 80 70 60 or report it anonymously to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.”