Former trustee admits £250,000 pension scheme fraud

Hope William-Smith
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The former trustee of a charity for the disabled has pleaded guilty to fraud after transferring more than £250,000 from the organisation’s pension scheme.

Patrick McLarry of Bere Alston in Devon took the funds from the pension scheme of Yateley Industries for the Disabled where he was both chief executive and chairman. At the time of committing th...

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