Adviser who stole from client's pension ordered to pay back £250k

Carmen Reichman
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An adviser who stole more than £200,000 from a client's pension has now been ordered to pay it back, plus interest, as well as serve three years in prison.

Jonathan Pollard was ordered to pay an elderly former client £250,000 after being convicted of two offences of theft by Lewes Crown Court, dating back to 2006. The court found Pollard stole from the elderly man, who was deemed "vulnerable through illness", after arranging for a power of attorney to look after his financial affairs. He arranged for the man's flat to be re-mortgaged and withdrew £215,000 from his pension "without his knowledge or agreement", which he then pocketed. After Pollard was sentenced to three years in prison in October 2013, a police financial investigator c...

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