'Playboy' adviser serving prison time banned by FCA

Conned £4.5m from clients

Hannah Godfrey
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‘Playboy’ adviser Neil Bartlett has been banned by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) from carrying out any regulated activity after he was convicted of 14 counts of fraud.

According to a final notice statement published on the FCA's website, the regulator did not consider Bartlett a "fit and proper" person, and as such banned him from regulated activity. The FCA said his fraud conviction demonstrated a "clear and serious lack of honesty and integrity". Upon his confession, Bartlett was convicted on indictment of 14 offences of fraud on 28 November 2018. He was then sentenced to serve a term of eight years imprisonment on 21 December 2018. Bartlett worked at Hereford-based Abacus Associates Financial Services from 2012 to May 2018. The firm was late b...

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