Jermaine Daley, 40, of Victoria Street, Dunstable Andy Mensah, 33, of Vermont Road, Wandsworth, London, were key to the fraud and were both found guilty of conspiring to commit fraud and money laundering.
Seven other people were convicted of money laundering for their part in the scam.
An investigation was launched in April 2018 by the Eastern Region Special Operations Unit (ERSOU), after reports following people purchasing corporate hospitality tickets at Twickenham Stadium from companies called Extreme Events Limited and Elite Direct Advertising between February 2017 and March 2018.
They were later contacted by the companies to say that their booking was being cancelled. When the victims tried to contact the company to request a refund, they found that the phone lines no longer existed and received no response on email.
More than 100 reports of fraud were made.
And when police examined the bank accounts for the company, they found that the fraudsters had made more than £1.8 million through their crimes.
Nine people were arrested in total as a result of the investigation, with two separate trials taking place at Southwark Crown Court.
The second trial concluded on Friday (April 1).
The other seven were Hasan Finik, 38, of Homerton High Street, Hackney, London; Jonathon Fraser, 38, of Kenmare Close, Uxbridge; Davin Pilgrim,…
