fraud

A mortgage adviser has been jailed for 18 months after stealing £200,000 from his friends and family to keep up with his gambling addiction.

A solicitor, who has been accused of committing more than £650,000 worth of mortgage fraud, has been warned by a judge that he faces a prison sentence.

A 69 year old man who tried to smuggle £60,000 in laundered money notes out of the UK by hiding it in his underwear, has been ordered to repay HMRC what he owes or face jail.

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has been instructed to release potentially sensitive documents about the downfall of Equitable Life following a Freedom of Information (FOI) request.

An IFA who stole more than £90,000 of clients' life savings to pay his own debts has been jailed for nearly two years today.

The former president of a New Jersey-based mortgage company has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for his part in an £84m fraud scheme.

HMRC is clamping down on qualifying recognised overseas pension scheme (QROPS) abuse through investigations by its Anti-Fraud Unit (AFU).

The family of the US Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) top lawyer made $1.5m by investing with fraudster Bernard Madoff, according to a trustee for victims of the ponzi scheme.

A debt-stricken Coventry estate agent has been jailed for 12 months after stealing more than £69,000 from his clients.

A disqualified director who admitted losing and spending £14m of investors' money as part of Madoff-style Ponzi scheme has been jailed for eight years.