Adviser jailed after blowing conned millions on 'playboy lifestyle'

According to the Daily Mail, Merseyside-based Neil Bartlett conned £4.5m from lifelong friends and family while claiming to be investing their pensions and life savings. The fraud was said to have started in 2013 and continued for five years, ensnaring 24 victims. Bartlett set up fake bank accounts and forged investment statements to clients into thinking their cash was growing. One woman lost her retirement fund of more than £600,000, the court was told, while a commercial heating firm was scammed out of nearly £1.5m.   With the money, Bartlett jetted off to New York and the Maldi...