Pension scammers forced to pay back £13.7m to 245 victims

James Phillips
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Four scammers have been told to pay back £13.7m after luring 245 pension savers to transfer funds to 11 bogus schemes.

The High Court has demanded that David Austin, Susan Dalton, Alan Barratt and Julia Hanson all repay the funds after the victims transferred their retirement pots into the scam schemes between 2012...

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