Joe Campbell
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Face-to-face with the forestry fraudsters who took my money (opens the original)
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It was a day Jane Bertelli did not want to miss - she was heading for Southwark Crown Court. Ever since the men who took £12,000, left to her by an elderly relative, admitted fraud, she had wanted to look them in the eyes. Squeezed into a standard class seat on a busy commuter train, her mode of transport was a world away from the three men who took her money, and that of 3,000 other people. Ethical Forestry directors Matthew Pickard, Stephen Greenaway and Paul Laver had a fondness for high-end
How a tree-planting scam drained pension pots to buy 'flash cars' (opens the original)
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Staff at Ethical Forestry always knew when their bosses were around. Even though the business was on the top floor of a Bournemouth office block there was no mistaking their arrival. You could hear one of their "top of the range, flash cars" roaring into the parking area three storeys below, according to former staff member Susan Cox. And "flash cars" they had a plenty - between them, company founder Matthew Pickard and fellow directors Stephen Greenaway and Paul Laver bought at least 45. They i
Dorset men jailed over £70m tree-planting investment scam (opens the original)
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Three men have been jailed over a multi-million pound tree-planting scam that cost nearly 3,000 investors their savings or pensions. Matthew Pickard, 55, Stephen Greenaway, 48, and Paul Laver, 48, bought luxury homes, cars and yachts from the profits of Bournemouth-based Ethical Forestry Ltd, which promised forestry investments in Costa Rica. The firm took £70m from small investors before it collapsed in 2015, Southwark Crown Court heard. Pickard, who pleaded guilty to fraudulent trading, was ja
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