Mistaken identity...
Criminal past of John Hirst the island fraudster
JOHN HIRST, the financier being investigated by the Serious Fraud Office over an alleged £20m Ponzi scheme, served two-and-a-half years in jail in the 1990s for similar offences.
The SFO launched an investigation into Hirst’s Gilher Inc earlier this month after he abruptly left Mallorca, where he spent the past seven years. More than 150 people, many of them British expats, gave him an estimated £20m to invest on the promise of “guaranteed” 20% annual returns.
He returned to Britain in August claiming to be suffering from leukaemia. He closed the fund but has not returned money to investors. Inquiries have since revealed a criminal past.
Hat-Tip to Barnacle Bill
A mixture of law, politics, autobiography and humour. Once described as "The Devilish Advocate" (Guardian), I do have the ability to provoke a response. Sometimes it comes from someone who uses a thought process, and sometimes from jerks usually associated with the knee.
Twould be nice to actually ahve had that cash.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the hat tip John.
ReplyDeleteYou ought to nip around to that mock Tudor palace to ask Two Pies how to do it legally!