Global Forestry Investments: Andrew Skeene and Omari Bowers have been convicted at Southwark Crown Court for their teak plantation investment scam.
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Citadel/Highpoint Trustees under investigation by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme
Citadel/Highpoint Trustees was involved in several very dubious investment schemes. Why didn’t the Financial Conduct Authority act?
Radio 4’s Anatomy of a Fraud: Featuring World Commodity Trading, Heritage FA, Eco-Synergies, IGL Labs UK, Diffraction Diamonds DMCC, Diffraction Limited, Citadel Trustees, and World Gemological Institute
By Chris Lang In November 2019, Radio 4’s File on 4 broadcast a programme titled, “The Anatomy of a Fraud”. It documents in detail how 86 year-old Cynthia Tuck was scammed into handing over almost £400,000 in fraudulent investment schemes. And how the authorities and police have utterly failed her.
Carbon credit fraudster Sami Raja appeals his prison sentence. While he carries on scamming in Dubai
By Chris Lang In January 2019, Sami Raja was sentenced to eight years in prison at Southwark Crown Court. He was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud and money laundering. Between January 2012 and August 2013, Raja and others miss-sold carbon credits to 130 retail investors. Two companies were involved in the £2.4 million fraud:…
A story of carbon credits, diamonds, and fraud. Featuring London Carbon Market, Carlton Chase, SDKA International, Gurpreet Singh Rai, and the return of Luke Ryan
By Chris Lang Gurpreet Singh Rai, or Gurps to his friends, describes himself as someone who was a “prominent figure of the Carbon Market”. He claims to have created history in 2011, when he became “the first person to successfully facilitate a commodity trade using a virtual currency”.