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Latest News
30 June 2009
SFO restrains $100M in Allen Stanford Case
Following developments in the US where Allen Stanford was taken into FBI custody in a criminal investigation, the SFO can now reveal that responding to a formal request from the US Department of Justice, it has obtained a restraining order over $100 million of assets believed to be held at certain London financial institutions. The order is in connection with Robert Allen Stanford, Stanford International Bank and others.
23 June 2009
Financial consultant defrauded British ‘expats’
Expatriates in Indonesia were defrauded of over US$800,000 by purported financial advisor Alan Gardner, a jury determined yesterday. Gardner created a fictitious foreign currency trading scheme, supposedly backed by the reputable Swiss bank UBS, offering 48% returns per year. The scheme was a sham in which four British and a Canadian expatriate were defrauded in a classic case of a high-yield investment fraud. Gardner was sentenced by HHJ Hooper at Worcester Crown Court to six years imprisonment.
19 June 2009
Four sentenced in a $10 million "Ponzi" fraud
Four men who operated high-yield investment schemes have been sentenced today to a total of over ten years after admitting their participation in defrauding investors worldwide of a total of US$10 million. A fifth man was sentenced in September 2008. At the centre of the fraud, entailing one of the most complex investigations undertaken by the SFO and Cheshire Police, was a project to extract gold from spent ore, though not an ounce was produced, and no revenue generated.
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