Three men jailed in US over £80m boiler room scam

Jenna Towler
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Three British men who ran an international organised crime gang that conned UK investors out of £80m have been jailed for a total of 43 years by a US judge.

City of London police said the sentencing of Richard Pope, Paul Gunter and Simon Odoni was a "major milestone" in a seven year trans-Atlantic operation. The investigation discovered at least 2,300 people - mostly retired professionals - lost money to the boiler room fraud. Individual losses ranged from a few hundred pounds to £1m.  City police said many victims had lost all their life savings. One man committed suicide after losing more than £200,000, including £70,000 to this gang. His widow Andrea Goswami, from Yorkshire this year travelled to Florida to give evidence against t...

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