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Millions of takeaway doner kebab lovers probably realise the meat isn’t the best quality – but did they know they were eating skin, fat and goat?
BBC News has been told the kebabs from Kismet Kebabs, which describes itself as one of the UK’s largest doner kebab makers, were sold to fast food outlets across the UK for years.
DNA testing revealed the kebabs were meant to be “70% lamb” – but were actually showing “less than 10% sheep”.
The firm was fined £500,000 after admitting to a fraud that dates back to 2021.
Kismet Kebabs, which is estimated to have made £6m from the fraud, said it related to “historical events” over five years ago when they “operated under a different leadership structure”.
The Essex-based company advertised and…
THE HASHFLARE “CLOUD MINING” PONZI SCHEME (GLOBAL/ESTONIA)
Date: February 13, 2025 (Guilty Pleas) Perpetrators: Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turogin
Case Description: This $577 million cryptocurrency fraud remains one of the largest digital asset scams in history, with major legal developments concluding in 2025. Potapenko and Turogin operated “Hashflare,” which they marketed as a massive cryptocurrency mining operation. Hundreds of thousands of victims worldwide purchased “mining contracts,” believing they were renting hash power to mine Bitcoin. In reality, the duo was running a sophisticated Ponzi scheme.
They created fake customer dashboards that showed “real-time” mining profits, but the money being paid out was simply the capital of newer investors. They laundered the proceeds through shell companies to purchase luxury real estate and a fleet of high-end vehicles. After a massive international investigation involving the FBI and Estonian authorities, the pair agreed to forfeit over $400 million in assets. This case underscores the “Cyber-enabled Fraud” warning issued by the FATF in early 2026: as technology evolves, the scale of fraud moves from local millions to global billions in the blink of an eye.
Link to Original: ACFE – High Profile Fraud of 2025