Advisers to repay £1 each after £3m property scam

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Two financial advisers serving prison time for their roles in a £3m property scam have been ordered to pay back just £1 each.

In October, Andrew Jelley, 39, and Joseph Nunn, 43, were jailed for six-and-a-half-years each for duping investors, promising returns of 10% to 15% a year through a property scheme. However, the pair were using some of the money to fund their gambling habits and were unable to make interest payments on the investments, the Littlehampton Gazette reports. Portsmouth Crown Court heard they no longer had any money or assets to confiscate and only £80,000 of the money invested has ever been recovered. Instead, they were ordered to pay back £1 each and slapped with orders meaning their f...

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