The Financial Services Authority has banned IFA George Robert Piggott from carrying out regulated activities for his threatening behaviour to clients and his reliance on forged documents.
The ban follows a decision made by the Financial Services and Markets Tribunal on 2 January 2007, which found Piggott was not a fit and proper person as required by the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. The tribunal found Piggott knowingly relied on documents which carried forged client signatures, recommended clients should lie to an insurance company, threatened some clients with litigation and verbal abuse and threatened a former employee with physical violence. Piggott repeatedly failed to accurately implement clients' instructions and he gave false and incomplete information ...
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