Pensioner jailed for Â£2.4m scam
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A pensioner is sentenced to five years in prison for masterminding a Â£2.4m benefits scam
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An MEP for South East England convicted of 21 charges of benefit fraud is being sentenced later.
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A prominent former banker was convicted on Sunday in a $2.2 billion fraud case that drove the Caribbean nation into an economic tailspin four years ago.
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Man who masterminded scam to charge people thousands of pounds for American work visas is sentenced to 15 months in prison
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One of the UK's most notorious criminals made so much money from crime he retired aged 35, a court is told.
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A smuggler who is believed to have imported drugs with a street value of up to Â£350m, much of it hidden in garden furniture, was today jailed for 26 years.
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A former executive of CA Inc. was sentenced to 10 months of home confinement for conspiring to buy the silence of two people as part of a $2.2 billion fraud scheme.
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The Office of Fair Trading says the elderly and vulnerable are being targeted by an array of increasingly sophisticated scams that are ripping consumers off to the tune of Â£3.5bn a year.
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QUEBEC (CP) - A 68-year-old accountant convicted of taking part in a scheme to defraud Roman Catholic nuns of &#36;100 million was sentenced Friday to two years' house arrest.
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Federal regulators said thousands of elderly people were defrauded of their savings through a hotel time-share scheme.
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A 72-year-old British &quot;Don Juan&quot; who conned a French millionairess out of her cash was jailed for a year, court officials said.
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A man accused of being an illegal immigrant while on holiday is paid Â£7,500 after he was wrongly put in prison.
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A bank robber who was arrested because he left his account card at a branch where he had checked his balance just before holding it up was sentenced to four years in jail.
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A man appears in court accused of plotting to defraud The Office creator, Ricky Gervais, of almost Â£200,000.
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A former landscape gardener who travelled Britain and Europe stealing rare maps from libraries was jailed yesterday for four-and-a-half years.
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An Australian woman nicknamed the "Catch Me if You Can" thief was jailed for four years on Friday after an audacious crime spree across eastern Australia.
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A 22-year-old man is jailed for killing a pensioner outside a Leicestershire supermarket.