Cambridge student sent explosives through post in incredibly stupid Amazon refund scam
Ovidijus Margelis devised a scheme to defraud Amazon and then eBay.
12:17, 15 MAY 2021
A heavy police presence with armed officers in Coldham s Lane on September 12 last year when Ovidijus Margelis was arrested (Image: Cambridge News)
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By Press Association 2021
Ovidijus Margelis court case
A student who sent packages with improvised explosive devices through the post as part of a plot to get fraudulent refunds has been jailed.
Ovidijus Margelis, 26, sent the packages to depots around the UK, causing site evacuations, road closures, and disruption to more than 50,000 people.
Kingston Crown Court heard that the total economic cost of disruption caused by the incidents was just under £600,000.
Ovidijus Margelis (Met Police)
Margelis was arrested by armed police in Cambridge in September of last year following reports of a suspicious package in Cricklewood, north London.
The third year business management student at Anglia Ruskin University pleaded guilty to one count of making explosive substances in February of this year.
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image captionOvidijus Margelis has been jailed for 21 months
A student who sent packages with improvised explosive devices through the post as part of a plot to get fraudulent refunds has been jailed.
Ovidijus Margelis, from Cambridge, sent the packages to depots around the UK, causing evacuations, road closures and disruption to more than 50,000 people.
He was jailed for 21 months at Kingston Crown Court after admitting making explosive substances and fraud charges.
Judge Martyn Barklem said Margelis had been incredibly stupid .
The court heard Margelis placed the improvised explosive devices inside packages, and they were made to burn through address labels meaning they could not be delivered.
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