Police shut down £20m boiler room scam
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BBC. One of Europe’s largest boiler room frauds, in which hundreds of victims lost in excess of £20m, has been shut down by police.
City of London Police have arrested 12 people over the Christmas period in Sunderland and Manchester. A 28-year-old man was also arrested in Sweden.
Detectives had been looking at the alleged share fraud since the middle of 2009, in an investigation codenamed Operation Soundwave.
One of the companies named by police as being part of their inquiry is the London-based BFS Corporation, that claimed to be a world leader in the bio-fuels industry.
The BFS Corporation was struck-off and dissolved in November last year and had never traded.
John Middlemiss was one investor in BFS, who parted with £11,000 on 4,000 shares before he grew concerned about cold calls from BFS salesmen. (más…)
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