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Collapsed London Capital & Finance operated as Ponzi scheme, courtroom guidelines

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People concerned within the London Capital & Finance scandal are liable to pay damages after the Excessive Court docket discovered that the collapsed “minibond” supplier operated as a Ponzi scheme that misrepresented itself in a “widespread, elementary and systematic” means.

Directors to the funding agency introduced the civil case in an try to get better cash from former administrators and others linked with LCF, which had raised about £237mn from about 11,600 particular person buyers earlier than it collapsed in 2019.

Former chief government Michael “Andy” Thomson and Spencer Golding, a shareholder in LCF-linked firms, had been discovered liable on Thursday for breaches of duties as administrators. Three different people — Paul Careless, John Russell-Murphy and Robert Sedgwick — “dishonestly assisted” them, the courtroom discovered.

The quantity of compensation to be payable can be decided by the courtroom at a later date.

The decide, Mr Justice Miles, mentioned LCF offered itself as a business lender to small and medium sized UK firms when in truth a “substantial a part of the cash” was “misappropriated” and used to make funds to individuals linked with the agency. Claimants had informed the courtroom that a few of the proceeds had been spent on gadgets together with diamond earrings, horses and shotguns.

The courtroom dominated that LCF was a Ponzi scheme in that it “depended nearly solely” on funds raised from new buyers to pay current ones, provided that “there was no unbiased supply of revenue”.

Funds made underneath purported “sale and buy agreements” weren’t real business arm’s size transactions, the decide mentioned, however “synthetic units” used to “conceal funds” in order that the people might “use these sums as they wished”.

Richard Slade and Companions, which represents Thomson, mentioned he was “stunned and disenchanted by the phrases of the judgment” and wouldn’t be making additional remark.

A lawyer performing for Careless didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. Golding, Russell-Murphy and Sedgwick had been unrepresented by counsel.

Administrator Finbarr O’Connell of Evelyn Companions mentioned he was “delighted” by the judgment. “The directors will now be able the place they will realise very substantial sums,” he mentioned.

 

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