Peter Murrell ran the Scottish National Party's books for two decades. For twelve of those years, court records show, he was quietly running another set of books inside the first one.
Timothy Paul Barnes asked friends, clients, and a charity he chaired for short-term loans. Eighteen months and nearly £2 million later, the money was in a crypto wallet that had already been drained by someone else.
UK prosecutors have charged a 43-year-old Peterborough woman and a 54-year-old former West Midlands Police superintendent in connection with an alleged £720,000 ($910K USD) investment fraud that drained a single woman's accounts over eighteen months. The badge was not on the table. It did not need to be.
Shelley Simpson sold luxury holidays that were never booked, then used the next customer's deposit to cover the last customer's lie. On May 6, a Portsmouth judge called it a dance of deception and sent her to prison for 33 months.