FCA confiscates more than £300,000 from convicted fraudsters

This amounts to all their remaining assets, the regulator confirmed in an update today (14 May). The confiscation proceedings for Reuben Akpojaro have been adjourned to a later date. The FCA said the money will be returned to investors "at the earliest opportunity" and warned that failure to pay can lead to imprisonment.  Vickers, Mirza and Solaja (aka Opeyemi Olaja) ran a London-based company called Bespoke Markets Group which defrauded £1.2m from UK investors. Between June 2016 and January 2020, the defendants were found guilty of cold calling people to convince them to invest...