{"id":30236,"date":"2015-08-20T06:39:56","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T05:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=30236"},"modified":"2015-08-20T06:39:56","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T05:39:56","slug":"a-surge-of-investment-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/08\/20\/a-surge-of-investment-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"A surge of investment fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/e994f42c-4660-11e5-af2f-4d6e0e5eda22.html#ixzz3jKYmHKYb\" target=\"_blank\">from the FT this morning<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A surge of investment fraud based in London\u2019s financial centre has sparked alarm over the possible contamination of its brand, and authorities have begun a campaign of disruption against suspected criminals using exclusive addresses such as Tower 42 on Old Broad Street and Heron Tower.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"shareArt\">\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"insideArticleShare\">Dozens of people have been arrested as police made unannounced office visits, and at least 14 suspected criminal groups disrupted, police say.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"insideArticleShare\">The frauds invariably involve the sale of fake investments.<\/div>\n<div class=\"insideArticleShare\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"insideArticleShare\">Need I say more? Wasn't it ever thus? As tax haven abuse reduces in appeal to the criminal end of the market another abuse rises in the City to take its place.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from the FT this morning: A surge of investment fraud based in London\u2019s financial centre has sparked alarm over the possible contamination of<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/08\/20\/a-surge-of-investment-fraud\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-of-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}