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Three directors of a property company that sold farm plots at hugely inflated prices with the fake promise of planning permission have been disqualified for a total of 27 years.

A group of eleven women - over half of whom are pensioners - have denied running an illegal pyramid scheme in the first UK case to be brought under new consumer protection regulations.

A former broker has revealed the strategies used by land banking firms to sell strips of land to unwary investors.

David Cameron's communications director Craig Oliver, and his BBC presenter wife Joanna Gosling, have become embroiled in a tax fraud investigation.

A fraudster who used 15 different identities has been jailed for seven years for illegally reclaiming £118,000 in VAT and committing forgery.

A pensioner has been charged with faking his death and then pretending to be his wife in order to claim on his life insurance policy.

China and the United States have agreed to hold economic talks as tensions between the world's two biggest economies continue to rise.

A boiler room scammer used a real IFA's name and FSA number to con investors out of thousands of pounds.

The City of London police and the FSA are warning investors to be on their guard as boiler room fraudsters are using new tactics to persuade investors to pay tens of thousands of pounds for non-existent shares.

A former financial adviser in South Texas who served as a pallbearer at a client's funeral then opened a bank account in the dead man's name is going to prison.