A HOLIER-than-thou fraudster said he set up a £5.6 billion bank transfer scam because Jesus told him he deserved to be rich.
John Haskew's god awful excuse emerged after he was caught trying to swindle the giant sum from “a large, nationally renowned financial institution” in the US.
“(Haskew stated) that Jesus Christ created wealth for everyone," according to prosecution documents.
"Using this scheme, Haskew believed that he could obtain the wealth that Jesus Christ created for him and that belonged to him.”
Jobless Haskew, of Florida, came up with the scheme as a way to repay a debt to the federal government, the court papers say.
Investigators were tipped off in December that Haskew had set up 70 wire transfers totalling more than $7 billion.
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He boasted to cops he was “self-taught on the banking industry” and figured out through trial and error how to make the fraudulent transactions using a bank routing number that did not belong to him.
It is not clear if he received any money before he was rumbled.
He pleaded guilty to a charge of making a false or fraudulent statement to a department or agency of the United States.
He faces up to five years in prison and a fine of £200,000.
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