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Matthew Ames, son of troubled overseas property company Harlequin's chairman David Ames, has been accused of running a £1.6m "Ponzi scheme" under the guise of saving the rainforest, a court has heard.

A group of UK and Irish investors who lost money in a Portuguese property scheme which never built anything, has accused the Irish government of conspiring with the fraudsters, a claim vigorously denied by Irish government agencies.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a prohibition order against a financial adviser currently serving prison time for six counts of fraud.

A fraud case brought by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) was dealt a lifeline by the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) after it 'declassified' the high cost case to attract barristers who initially refused to represent the defendants on recently reduced fees....

The UK arm of international advisory firm deVere Group has been the target of another cloning scam, with perpetrators imitating its advisers and forging business cards to dupe clients, the firm's UK chief has said today.

A gang of investment fraudsters who conned 73 people out of £700,000 have been jailed for up to six years at Southwark Crown Court.

The regulator's clamp-down on financial crime will have an effect on advisory firms who are often seen as the gate-keepers to financial services, a consultancy has said.

A former accountant for Bernard Madoff was arrested on Thursday, nearly five years after the fraudster's huge Ponzi scheme was uncovered, an FBI spokesman said.

City of London Police detectives have arrested six men as part of an investigation into a suspected ‘boiler room' operating from the Square Mile selling carbon credits.

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