fraud

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.

Fraudsters claiming to be from the FSCS are cold-calling consumers to tell them they are in line for compensation.

A conman who posed as an Oxford and Harvard graduate to win a job as the deputy CEO of Ahli United Bank has been given a 50-week prison sentence.

Former The Apprentice contestant and mortgage broker Christopher Farrell today received a nine-month suspended prison sentence for doctoring applications to hit sales targets.

Six men have been convicted for deception and money laundering offences which netted them £10m.

Fraud is costing the financial services industry £3.6bn per year, according to the National Fraud Authority (NFA).

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has pledged to reveal 2,000 individuals and companies guilty of some of the $20trn of offshore tax avoidance, after a Swiss whistleblower handed him a list today.

A financial adviser who conned clients out of more than £330,000 has been ordered to pay compensation to his victims.

The offshore bank account details of 2,000 "high net worth individuals" and corporations - detailing massive potential tax evasion - will be handed over to the WikiLeaks organisation in London today by Swiss whistleblower Rudolf Elmer, two days before...

A conman has pleaded guilty to carrying out a £14m ‘ponzi' scheme which defrauded 350 victims.