THE WAY THE PENNINES PENSION SCAM WORKED Members were targeted by “Cash From Pensions” and persuaded to transfer into Pennines to get an “unconnected loan” once they had transferred into the Pennines scheme which was invested in Hedge Capital. The scheme is now in the hands of Dalriada Trustees. There were around 143 victims with […]
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HOW THE LONDON QUANTUM PENSION SCAM WORKED The London Quantum pension scam was the brainchild of Stephen Ward. Ward’s firm Dorrixo Alliance was the trustee and administrator of the scheme. Dorrixo was also trustee for a number of other pension liberation scams such as Headforte and Southlands which were used for “loans” when Evergreen got
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HENLEY PENSION SCAM THE WAY THE SCHEME WORKED This was the “sister” scheme to Capita Oak, whose trustee was Imperial Trustee Services. The Henley trustee was Omni Trustees. Both Omni and Imperial were wound up by the Insolvency Service in the summer of 2015 and the two schemes had around £20m invested in Store First
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EVERGREEN RETIREMENT TRUST QROPS PENSION SCAM AND MARAZION LOANS THE WAY THE SCAM WORKED When Ark got shut down in June 2011, Stephen Ward flew to New Zealand and set up the Evergreen NZ QROPS liberation scam with Simon Swallow of Charter Square. Ward also set up a “loan” company in Cyprus called Marazion. He
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DORRIXO Alliance is a pension trustee firm (for London Quantum among various others) run by Stephen Ward and his sidekick Anthony Salih THE WAY THE SCAM WORKED Dorrixo was a pension scheme administration and trustee company set up by Stephen Ward. It was the trustee for at least a couple of schemes – possibly dozens
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ARK PENSION SCAM – THE WAY THE SCHEME WORKED: Six “occupational” schemes were used: Lancaster; Portman; Cranborne Star; Woodcroft House; Tallton Place and Grosvenor Parade. Each scheme had to have less than 100 members to stay under tPR’s inspection radar. Member A would transfer their £100k pension to – say – Lancaster; Member B would
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All pension scam victims experience profound misery, worry, stress and sleepless nights. Few have the strength to speak out and tell the world what it is like to be the victim of this despicable financial crime. I asked David King, one of the Ark victims, to write his story: “Firstly without you and your team
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Below is a list of the ceding pension providers (CPPs) that are currently being dealt with at Pension Life and who have been facilitating financial crime. This is not a definitive list as we are currently dealing with an ever increasing pile of protected assessments appeals to process ahead of the deadline. We will be
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£19m worth of Pensions from 476 people lost though two schemes – Pennines and Mendip. Pennines and Mendip: Hedge Capital Investments Ltd, Hedge Capital Investment Group Plc and Hedge Capital Ltd were introducers or the financial advisers who proposed the schemes Pennines and Mendip as suitable schemes for 476. The end result was that
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The Justice Morgan Disaster was a real setback for justice for victims of pension scams and emasculated the pensions ombudsman. Shame on the High Court. Judgement in the matter of Donna-Marie Hughes and Royal London Mutual Insurance Society Case Number CH/2015/0377 on 19th February 2016 In the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division Letters to:
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3 Watchwords used by Pension Scammers VISIT PENSION-LIFE.COM Pension Scammers ACA Pension Life Chairman Angie Brooks was recently quoted as revealing the top words used by pension scammers:
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Your Christmas Pension Wish List! Dear Ros, Seasons greetings. We thought you might like to see what are the items, we at Pension Life, would like for this Christmas and the New Year. No.1 We would like to see that HMRC implement a thorough Due Diligence strategy. No.2 At Pension Life we feel that the
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