Share this page!

Maybe Scrolly?
Ian Beckett Profile picture
Twitter logo
Aug 11 • 18 tweets • 19 min read
@ArmitageJim @premnsikka - 1/ A corrupt solicitor: ‘Timothy Schools’, who named his firm ‘ATM’ because it was "a cash machine" for litigation awards has been convicted of a notorious #fraud - the £120m #Axiom Legal Financing Fund “Axiom”. Axiom was launched in 2009 as an …
2/ offshore fund (+ its associated ‘fund manager’ - Tangerine Investment Management’ - “#Tangerine”), purportedly providing litigation finance to small UK solicitors firms for low value high volume claims. It was peddled to the UK public & expats widely by a large web of …
3/ @theFCA made men/women & their associated unauthorised cold calling cowboys in the FCA’s SIPPshittery, @TPRgovuk’s pension liberation scams + allegedly ‘wrapped’ (in purportedly ‘insurance bonds’/SIPPs) by the FCA’s ‘Big Fish’ & peddled particularly to older …
4/ UK residents/expats by FCA made men/women & unregulated cold calling cowboys (incl. notorious offshore #QROPS ops + shady ‘EU passported in’ ops). At the heart of the UK element of the scandal was allegedly an initially unregulated op #TaylorMoor, allegedly run by a duo of …
5/ ‘lead generators’ Alistair Moncrieff & Malcolm Dixon, who allegedly pushed 3 infamous not so little numbers: #Axiom, #Quadris (international-adviser.com/isle-of-man-gr…) & #PATF (Protected Asset TEP Fund plc - maltatoday.com.mt/comment/blogs/…). The FCA’s rotten register of ‘Big Fish’ & commission/…
6/ fee greedy IFA’s were only too happy to ‘wrap’ +/or peddle these to the public. In mid 2011 Taylor Moor was authorised via the regulatory cat-flap (A.R.) by one of the FCA’s notorious ‘regulatory hotels’: Porta Verde Financial Services Ltd (given a pitiful fine “for its …
7/ A.R.’s unacceptable high pressure **Insurance** sales practices” as it’s honchos claimed poverty). Taylor Moor’s 2012 website proudly outed the FCA’s ‘Big Fish’, allegedly involved in ‘wrapping’ its ‘product’ (incl. Axiom). As the Axiom shit hit the FCA’s fan …
8/ in late 2012 after being exposed by #OffshoreAlert, the FCA blanketed the whole scandal in a ‘fog’, including Taylor Moor, which Offshore Alert alleged received ~ £1.8m in commissions from distributing the ~£120m Axiom fund. Out of this ‘FCA fog’ strode …
9/ messrs Dixon & Moncrieff to their subsequent ops. Malcolm Dixon would allegedly have a role in the #DolphinTrust (aka #GPG) $billion scandal (drive.google.com/file/d/1AEDyYd…). Alistair Moncrieff would re-up as a FCA made man amidst a bevy of lead, SEO & claims data ops …
10/ to star in a rather strange purported FCA auth insurance portal op: Life & General Ltd T/A #BeProtectedInsurance (imploded with Israeli #adtech op #MediaForce as an enormous creditor). Next on the FCA auth agenda: evaporating personal insolvency (IVA) portal ops ..
11/ Valmont Financial Ltd (Valmont Ventures Ltd) & Tomorrows MG Ltd (T/A National Debt Help etc). Meanwhile, with the #AstuteCapital PLC op it was time to play the FCA’s so called ‘listed bond’ mayhem (mirror.co.uk/news/thats-ric…), the plans for another bond (Credit Assets PLC) …
12/ allegedly evaporated with the fallout from the FCA being under a firestorm for turning a blind eye to ‘mini-bond mayhem’. Alistair Moncrieff’s latest ops: the purported whiskey cask investment op tango’ing twosome of ClicksPay Ltd & Blackford Casks Ltd doing the old …
13/ ‘common name switcheroo’. Back to where we started, in the Caymans with Axiom, Tangerine & Timothy Schools. We’ve been here before + met allegedly #LCF mini-bond scandal ‘endgame’ player Whyke & his wingman: the notorious Israeli lawyer Yoram Yossifoff, allegedly linked …
14/ to the Israeli/Russian underworld (), formerly owner of the Park Lane Club in Londonski () + entwined with #CityEquities & the ‘ding dong deal’. Those looking closely at the alleged CityEquities/Axiom corporate interactions …
15/ will note a familiar face: ‘Brandstätter BMA’, the Austrian law firm of Juergen Brandstätter which we also saw in the gestation of the FCA’s ever increasingly notorious #emoney op #Viola & it’s associated ops. LCF’s Whyke was formerly a partner of ICAEW firm …
16/ #ClarksonHyde: (A) auditors of the notorious #AssetLife minibond scandal (entwined with #LCF & #AngloWealth minibond scandals), the Knifton clan’s ops & also auditors to insolvent LCF ‘borrower’ op ‘Lakeview UK Investments plc’. (B) some of whose partners were allegedly …
17/ linked to the gestation of the ‘Knifton/Seakens carbon credit scheme’ (Knifton Jnr & LCF linked Paul Seakens were subsequently shut down) + on and on it goes. When we writeup the wider web of the #Safehands scandal, we’ll come across another so called ‘litigation finance’ op.
18/18 As always, the blind eyed financial regulator (@theFCA) & its defunct predecessor (#FSA) didn’t see a thing, hear a thing or do much about anything at all.

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Ian Beckett

Ian Beckett Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @ianbeckett

Ian Beckett Profile picture
Aug 9
#CryptoCrap - 1/ Portugal’s biggest banks are shutting down banking facilities for crypto exchanges, operating in what’s become a crypto ‘Wild West’, driven by Portugal’s(until 3 months ago) tax free status for crypto & ‘few questions asked’ use in property/other major purchases. Image
2/ (euronews.com/next/2022/05/1…). It’s rumoured enormous volumes of crypto of Ukrainian/Russian origin have passed through Portuguese crypto ops & it’s banking system. Portugal’s former ‘tax free’ crypto-crappery & lax #MoneyLaundering rules have attracted in particular …
3/ satellite Ukrainian crypto, support, & software ops - some with a dubious pedigree. Even crypto aficionados from neighboring Spain, which shares a similar climate, started crossing the border into Portugal after their government last year made it mandatory for …
Read 4 tweets
Ian Beckett Profile picture
Aug 8
@ArmitageJim @premnsikka 1/ UK’s government investment fund (#FutureFund) largely backed ‘zombie businesses’ (ft.com/content/230fa1…). The #FutureFund was managed by the unaccountable fat-cats at the #BritishBusinessBank (aka British Bank of Wank) “BBB”, whose baboonery … Image
2/ reportedly even extended to forgetting to remove parts of FOI’d documents they had decided to redact before having to publish. Lord Agnew recently railed against the COVID pandemic support scheme baboonery from the toddlers at the Treasury & it’s appendage the BBB, …
3/ extending his concern to the opaqueness surrounding the record of the two dozen ‘lenders’ doling out tax payer money as govt. COVID loan support - many, it’s alleged, doing little to no due diligence. Meanwhile, the BBB’s statutory accounts show they ‘mark their own work’ …
Read 4 tweets
Ian Beckett Profile picture
Aug 7
@ArmitageJim @premnsikka 1/ David Ames, patriarch of the Ames clan was convicted of #fraud on Wednesday i.r.o. the infamous £226m ‘#HarlequinProperty’ Caribbean property scam, peddled through @TheFCA’s SIPPshittery & @TPRgovuk’s pension liberation scams (ftadviser.com/regulation/202…).
2/ A hotspot of Harlequin Property scam peddling was the #LCF crews manor, with #LCF’s Spencer Golding’s alleged boiler room including a major Harlequin op ( AND ) + was allegedly linked to #LCF crew-mate & ICAEW man …
3/ Michael Peacock ( AND ). A long term associate of Spencer Golding was #LCF/#MJSCapital’s (+ Masonic mover & shaker) John Russell-Murphy “JRM”. When Spencer Golding’s alleged boiler room was reportedly credit-card blacklisted …
Read 31 tweets
Ian Beckett Profile picture
May 2
“The sickening day I lost £125k - Britain’s biggest advice firm (#StJamesPlace) is investigating claims that a 64-year-old investor was misled” In an all too familiar toxic mix of the @TheFCA’s men/women + high upfront commission/fee high risk products … ImageImage
2/ - with a twist: the acquisition **in mid 2014** of FCA IFA Gilruth independent advisors ltd “Gilruth” (renamed after acquisition to Regentia lifestyle planning ltd “Regentia”) by the owner of another FCA IFA (Regency Wealth Ltd “Regency” - an A.R. of St James Place).
3/ Regency was reportedly limited to hawking only St James Place products, but it’s new sibling Regentia reportedly could also hawk anything it wanted to. The client, a 64 yr old mother & widower thought she was dealing with her Regency IFA she had dealt with for many years.
Read 14 tweets
Ian Beckett Profile picture
Apr 29
@ArmitageJim @premnsikka 1/ Unsurprisingly yet more allegations of ‘nasty niffs’ from the wild west of @TheFCA’s #Emoney/#FX scene - ‘ FCA authorised money transfer/FX op #LinkFX plc hit with £5m alleged fraudulent payments lawsuit by the liquidator of a purported construction … Image
2/ staffing agency’ (aka ‘payroll op’) #WittsServices Ltd (shutdown by HMRC). The liquidator alleged that : 1. the sole director of Witts Services was a car mechanic with no history as a company director or in construction. 2. LinkFX knew little to nothing about … Image
3/ Witts Services’ business or the £8m of transfers Link FX was making on its behalf allegedly to a Cricklewood (North London) pub landlord ‘Austin McGovern’. 4. LinkFX was aware that Witts Services had no known source of funding & was generating “extraordinary large income …
Read 8 tweets
Ian Beckett Profile picture
Apr 15
@ArmitageJim @premnsikka 1/ ‘#HMRC uses new legal powers to name #tax avoidance schemes + their promoters - for the first time’. However, the HMRC would do better to really name the invariably shadowy figures & web of past/present ‘ops’ linked to the tax avoidance scheme.
2/ We’ve seen already the infamous Philippines based #AndersonGroup + its Filipino point woman Alona Varon that have targeted the UK for years with dozens of ‘outsourced payroll’ etc ops (). We’ve seen the alleged involvement of OCG’s …
3/ (Organised Crime Groups) in ‘outsourced payroll’ ops in an expose of the Glasgow restaurant scene by the Daily Record (). We’ve seen BBC FileOn4 expose alleged industrial scale ‘outsourced payroll’ fraud involving the recruitment (via #SocialMedia) …
Read 18 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

:(