Former tax boss pleads not guilty to £5m fraud

The former president of the Association of Taxation Technicians denies a charge he, with the help of colleagues, registered the Moya pension scheme to make false tax relief claims between 1 January 2006 and 30 April 2010. Meeson's co-accused are business associates Peter Spencer Bradley, Alison Jayne Bradley and Steven Price. They, too, have denied the charge. The charge sheet alleges the defendants made tax relief claims on contributions "that had not been made". A second charge which claimed the four defendants knowingly used a false passport in the name of Shaun Stokes was dropp...