We must stamp out 'liberation'

Charles Cowling says there is plenty trustees and regulators can to do counter liberation fraud

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Pension ‘liberation' is the latest challenge for trustees. Of course, it's not ‘liberation', it's theft: nasty, pernicious, old fashioned fraud and theft. Those guilty should be tracked down and locked up.

Fraudsters set up a bogus scheme which is registered with the authorities and can appear quite legitimate with a very plausible name. These fraudsters then target unsuspecting scheme members, somet...

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