Convicted fraudster linked to £5m pension fraud

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Former tax boss Andrew Meeson set up the allegedly "fictitious" Moya pension schemes at the behest of convicted fraudster Thomas Scragg, a court heard yesterday.

Scragg was sentenced last year to 17 years in prison for carrying out a £34m tax and VAT fraud by laundering cash through the construction industry. Giving evidence in his defence, Meeson (pictu...

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