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A former accountant for Bernard Madoff was arrested on Thursday, nearly five years after the fraudster's huge Ponzi scheme was uncovered, an FBI spokesman said.

City of London Police detectives have arrested six men as part of an investigation into a suspected ‘boiler room' operating from the Square Mile selling carbon credits.

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Financial Fraud Action UK (FFA UK) has released new fraud intelligence highlighting the growth of a phone scam in which fraudsters are targeting individuals to deceive them into revealing personal and financial information - or make payments into the...

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) is considering whether it will pay compensation to those invested through the troubled self invested personal pension (SIPP) operator HD Administrators (HDA).

Two tax consultants have been charged with fraud over their part in a £1m tax scheme which took advantage of charity reliefs.

The son of troubled overseas property company Harlequin's chairman has been disqualified from being a company director for 13 years.

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has charged four men, including an independent financial adviser (IFA), with fraud in connection with the promotion of biofuel investment products through SIPPs to UK investors.

Fraudsters have targeted network Financial, misusing its brand name and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) authorisation details.

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.