Standard Life Pensions has facilitated much of the World’s worst pension fraud in the past fifteen years. It is one of UK’s biggest pension providers and is part of the huge Phoenix Group. Standard Life should have known better than to transfer hundreds of victims’ pensions into the hands of the various pension fraudsters and
Isle of Man or Isle of Scam? After publishing the recent Pension Life blog about fraud operated and facilitated in Malta – it became clear there was an urgent need to shut down the rogue Maltese QROPS trustees. These firms act as the intermediary between the fraudulent secret commissions paid by the Isle of Man
21st August 2025, saw the first hearing in the Serious Fraud Office’s criminal trial of some of the players in the Store First pension scam. The pension schemes involved included bogus occupational schemes Capita Oak and Henley Retirement Benefits Scheme – as well as various SIPPS including Carey Pensions and Berkeley Burke. Appearing in the
MALTA – THE ALTAR OF FRAUD Malta has a long history of facilitating not just massive-scale pension fraud, but all types of financial fraud as well. Recent reports indicate a sharp increase in fraud cases and financial losses in the grubby little island of Malta. A corrupt jurisdiction where neither the financial regulator nor the
Jody Smart, sole director of Continental Wealth Management, has been found guilty of fraud, deception and swindling two clients out of £370,000 and sentenced to four years and three months in prison.
Since 2013, thousands of clients of Planet Pensions – previously known as Aktiva Wealth Management and Square Mile International Financial Services – have been scammed out of their pensions. John Ferguson and David Vilka of Planet Pensions (Square Mile/Aktiva) advised UK residents to transfer their pensions into QROPS including: The clients were conned into these
The Post Office scandal is routinely referred to as being the worst betrayal of justice in British history. It is hard to argue that there could be anything worse than what the liars and fraudsters at Post Office Limited and Fujitsu (and their various lawyers) did to hundreds of innocent sub postmasters. But the Life
High Court Rules in Trafalgar Multi Asset Fund Case against James Hadley and associates. In a recent High Court judgment, Judge Mr. Nicholas Thompsell found that the Cayman-Islands based Trafalgar Multi Asset Fund (TMAF) was involved in an illegal conspiracy to “extract commissions from the investments.” The defendants, who were also behind the 2013 Store
