UK investors lost more than £2bn to investment fraud since 2020

PMI research finds £855m was lost to duplicitous investment scams in 2022

Martin Richmond
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UK investors lost more than £2bn to investment fraud since 2020

More than £2bn has been stolen from UK investors through fraudulent investment scams since the start of the decade, research from the Pensions Management Institute (PMI) shows.

The institute's research, obtained through a Freedom of information (FOI) request to the City of London's Police National Fraud Intelligence Bureau, found between January 2020 and December 2023, mo...

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