The three Jones brothers jailed for fraud last year have failed to submit financial statements
A proceeds of crime hearing involving the four Jones family members who ran Penygroes-based Express Motors, who were jailed for a total of 28 years after being convicted of concessionary fare fraud and misappropriating money earned by the business [routeone/Court Report/7 November 2018], was adjourned until February after Caernarfon Crown Court was told that the three brothers involved had failed to submit statements of their financial affairs.
Last October the brothers’ father Eric Wyn Jones, was jailed for seven and a half years. Of the brothers, Ian Wyn Jones was jailed for seven and a half years; Kevin Wyn Jones, was jailed for seven years; and Keith Jones, said to have played a lesser role in the concessionary fare conspiracy, was jailed for six years.
They were unanimously found guilty by a jury last October of trying to swindle Gwynedd Council by claiming cash for 88,000 passenger journeys which never took place. They were also found guilty of siphoning more than £500,000 which they failed to declare.
Concluding the sentence hearing at Mold Crown Court, Judge Timothy Petts ordered an investigation into their financial affairs be carried out and a timetable was set.
Prosecuting, Mathew Dunford told the court some financial statements had been filed with the prosecution but those relating to the three brothers were still awaited. He asked the judge to vary the timetable.
John Wyn Williams, for Ian Wyn Jones, said an expert report had been commissioned to differentiate between business expenditure and money received personally. He added that the report was expected to be completed by early December.
Judge Petts agreed to vary the timetable and adjourned the case to a further hearing, at either Caernarfon or Mold Crown Court, in mid-February. When the reports are complete the Jones family could be ordered to pay back thousands of pounds of criminal earnings.
