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Court proceedings in an asset stripping fraud concluded today with a confiscation order of £60,000. This completes a number of hearings conducted throughout 2004 in which five defendants have been convicted.
Malcolm Varrick was jailed for four years today after admitting he stole £1.16 million from investors deceived through his Durham-based financial businesses. He promised high and assured profits on options trading.
Serious Fraud Office Director Robert Wardle has appointed three non-executive directors to the Management Board. The new appointments, which took effect this month, are Dame Elizabeth Neville DBE QPM, Harriet Maunsell OBE and Alan Graham.
Six persons have been sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court to a total of almost 16 years imprisonment for a fraud relating to mortgage applications. This followed a trial of three of the defendants which concluded with jury verdicts of guilty on 2 November.
The Serious Fraud Office ("SFO"), with the Ministry of Defence Police ("MDP"), has commenced an investigation into suspected false accounting in relation to contracts for services between Robert Lee International Ltd, Travellers World Ltd and BAE in connection with defence equipment contracts with the government of Saudi Arabia.
Richard Carr, aged 51, and William Jeffrey, aged 48, today appeared in Solihull Magistrates Court charged with offences contrary to Section 19 of the Theft Act 1968 and Section 389A(2) of the Companies Act 1985.
Lifting of reporting restrictions today allows publication of convictions of members of Robinsons Solicitors, a law firm in Cheltenham, for defrauding the legal aid system. In phase 1 of this case, the SFO secured ten convictions in 2001, including principal partner Tim Robinson who was sentenced to seven years imprisonment and ordered to pay £½ million as confiscation.
Robert Damon-Aspen was jailed for two and a half years today for deception conducted through his internet-based insurance intermediary business CFT Group Insurance Services. He used the internet to take premiums from over 5,000 clients without obtaining cover for them at Lloyd's and issued forged policy documents to disguise his fraud.
Roddam Twiss was sentenced today at Southwark Crown Court to 3 ½ years' imprisonment for conspiracy to steal 2.2 million US dollars in a high yield investment scheme. He was banned from acting as a company director for 7 years and has been ordered to pay confiscation of some £89,000 Roddam Twiss was chief executive of the Dragon Group which included The Grosvenor Trust, Grosvenor Ventures Inc and Asset Management Associates.
The principal offender convicted for defrauding a Dorset charitable trust has today had his original three-year prison sentence judged to be unduly lenient and increased to six years. Sentences of two other offenders remain unchanged.
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