Harlequin

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has received a "small number" of complaints related to troubled overseas property sales agent Harlequin Property - though this could rise if a group of investors gets its way.

Harlequin Management Services (South East), which trades as Harlequin Property, has filed a notice of intention to appoint administrators at the High Court of Justice.

Representatives of the troubled overseas property sales agent Harlequin Property are set to meet investors next week. Here are the questions those with some £200m in the scheme will be putting to Harlequin and urgently want answered.

A survey of 150 investors in properties sold by overseas property agent Harlequin, which is at the centre of a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigation, suggests as many as 40% of them have asked for their money back - but only two have received it.

A BBC producer who was working on a Panorama programme about troubled overseas property agent Harlequin Property has left the corporation as it emerged that Harlequin is to take an allegation of bribery against him to the police.

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Harlequin Property, the UK-based overseas property sales agent that is at the centre of a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigation, has lost its second auditor in under three years.

The BBC has postponed an episode of Panorama covering overseas luxury property company Harlequin following allegations of bribery.

IFA TailorMade Independent (TMI), which advised on investments with troubled overseas property agent Harlequin Property, has launched an internal review of its processes following a visit by the Financial Services Authority (FSA).

Some agents selling Harlequin properties before March 2009 misled investors into thinking that their investment money would be held securely in ring-fenced accounts.