Julian Hanson – why pension scammers must be prosecuted. And jailed. BARRATT AND DALTON PENSION SCAM: The Pensions Regulator has announced that on 23 January 2018, four pension scammers have been ordered to pay back £13.7 million they stole from their victims. BARRATT AND DALTON PENSION LIBERATION SCAM: 245 victims had their pension funds stolen […]
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The 487 Ark victims have gone through pure hell since the Pensions Regulator appointed Dalriada Trustees to the Ark schemes. First they discovered from Justice Bean in the High Court that the scheme was a “fraud on the power of investment” and then they discovered that HMRC were going to try to tax loans at
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TRAFALGAR MULTI ASSET FUND (SUSPENDED) After the disasters of failed pension schemes Capita Oak, Henley and Westminster (aggregate of £20 million lost to over 500 victims through investments in Store First store pods – wound up by the Insolvency Service), there are now concerns about the suspended Trafalgar Multi Asset Fund of £20 million. The
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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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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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Edward Troup 11th March 2016 Chief Executive’s Office HM Revenue & Customs 100 Parliament Street London SW1A 2BQ Dear Mr. Troup HMRC’S ROLE IN SIX-YEAR PENSION LIBERATION FRAUD Congratulations on your appointment as head of HMRC. I am sure you will have a great deal of work on your plate cleaning up the
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Dear Mr. Crabb – latest DWP Secretary Congratulations on your appointment as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions – DWP. I wish you well, and would ask you to engage urgently with the Ark Class Action representing hundreds of victims of pension fraud as we urgently need your help and support as we have
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Parliament debated the WASPI issue at the beginning of 2016. The culmination of months of hard work by the WASPI (Women Against State Pension Inequality) campaigners finally arrived on 7th January 2016. Mhairi Black (SNP MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South) asked the Government to introduce “transitional arrangements” to help the hundreds of thousands of
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The well-written and informative epistles by Frances Coppola, Henry Tapper, Joan Bakewell, Paul Lewis etc., remind me of the tale of the five blind men and the elephant: “Five blind men stood in a ring around an elephant, and were asked to describe it. Each in turn reached out and touched the animal and
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Email to Michael Bridges, Compliance, HMRC from Angie Brooks, ARK Class Action – re pension liberation loans. 11 November 2015 Dear Mr. Bridges, Re: Pension Liberation “Loans” Thank you for calling me yesterday and for discussing the various aspects of the pension transfers and “loans”. Some important points arose from our discussion, and I
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LETTER TO PRUDENTIAL’S CHAIRMAN RE TRANSFERS TO PENSION SCAMS Dear Mr. Manduca As you are the Chairman of Prudential, and in light of the recent POS determination in respect of a Capita Oak victim’s transfer out of Prudential and in to a scheme which was clearly a pension liberation scam, I feel it is important
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