Directors charged with fraud over Costa Rica plantation investment scheme
‘Abrupt collapse’ of company saw around 3,500 UK investors lose £70m
Insolvency Service
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£20m Ponzi scheme fraudster handed seven-year prison sentence
Many victims lost most or all of the money they had entrusted to him
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Trio banned over £44m pension transfer mis-selling scandal
Victims had their funds placed into high-risk investments based in Mauritius
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Director banned over £8m care home investment scheme
He has been handed a 10-year disqualification order
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Eight-year ban for director over hotel investment scheme
Disqualification ‘should serve as a stark warning’
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Duo banned over care home investment scheme
It was an ‘appalling exploitation of relatively unsophisticated investors’
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Crypto firm shut down for scamming investors
It promised victims returns of up to 200%
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Investment companies wound up over £2m scam
They promised high interest rates on convertible loan notes
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Scammers target wine investment scheme victims
While more than half of Brits have been contacted by fraudsters in the last year
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De facto director banned over gold trading investment scheme
Victims were promised annual returns between 15% and 22%
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Ex-financial adviser jailed for three years
She was previously sent to prison in 2009 for stealing from her clients
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‘Unscrupulous’ online broker shut down for misleading investors
Victims reported losses of around £263,000