A UK-born student doctor has been deported from Australia after being sentenced to jail for using fake bank transfer receipts to avoid paying two sex workers he had engaged in Sydney.

Faraz Mahboob, 32, was sentenced earlier this year after pleading guilty to two counts of rape after providing the women with fraudulent Commonwealth Bank receipts as proof that he had transferred $2,000 to each of them before blocking them after they provided their services.

The offences occurred in Sydney’s CBD in late 2024 and early 2025 while Mahboob was living in Eastgardens in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.

Under consent laws introduced in NSW in 2022, a person can be charged with sexual assault where consent to sexual activity was conditional on an agreed payment, and that payment is not made.

Court documents revealed Mahboob was a final-year medical student undertaking a clinical placement at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney when he committed the offences.

Both women had been engaged online and agreed to receive $2,000 in exchange for unprotected sex at the A by Adina Hotel.

Police arrested Mahboob on January 7, 2025, after hotel staff alerted investigators that he had made a third booking.

Officers waited for him at the hotel before taking him to Day Street Police Station.

Mahboob was sentenced to two years and six months in prison, with a non-parole period of one year and five months.

His sentence was backdated to his arrest and he was released on parole on June 6, 2026.

News.com.au has since confirmed that Mahboob, who was originally from the UK, has been deported from Australia following his conviction.

The Department of Home Affairs said it took its responsibility to protect the community seriously.

“[The department] takes seriously its responsibility to protect the community from the risk of harm arising from non-citizens who choose to engage in criminal activity or other serious conduct of concern,” a spokesperson said.

The first woman, aged 28, met Mahboob in December 2024 after he contacted her through Seeking.com using the name “Alex”.

According to court documents, the woman agreed to have unprotected sex with him after he provided what appeared to be a NSW Pathology blood test showing negative sexually transmitted disease results.

Mahboob also sent her what appeared to be a $2,000 bank transfer receipt.

He told her the money could take three days to clear and later handed her a physical receipt when they met at the hotel.

About 10 minutes after she left, Mahboob messaged her saying he did not want to see her again because he felt he was “cheating on his ex-girlfriend”.

He then blocked her.

The woman contacted police three days later after the promised payment failed to arrive.

The second woman, aged 23, was contacted by Mahboob in January 2025 through WhatsApp, where he used the name “Akshay”.

He again allegedly sent a fake payment receipt before meeting her at the hotel.

During intercourse, Mahboob suddenly stopped and told the woman he was experiencing “flashbacks”, before making a derogatory remark towards her.

He later apologised and left the hotel.

When the payment failed to appear in her account, the woman confronted him on WhatsApp.

Mahboob claimed his bank had cancelled the payment because it had been flagged as fraudulent and said he was opening a new account.

The woman told him she was suspicious of his explanation and warned that he could face a rape charge if the money was not paid.

Mahboob subsequently claimed that $45,000 had recently been stolen from his bank account and pleaded with her not to report him.

“Please. I’m not a bad person. Just don’t ruin my life over $2k,” he wrote, according to messages obtained by news.com.au.

During their exchanges, Mahboob sent the woman a photograph of a UK passport bearing the name “Akshay Kamra”.

He later sent her a photograph taken at a hospital in which his real name was visible on his NSW Health work pass.

Mahboob also claimed he had travelled to Queensland and was working at a hospital in Brisbane.

The woman subsequently reported the matter to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and police.

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