Footballers get bitten by HMRC

[cojak]

This should prove very interesting.

Premier League players lost millions in investments - BBC Sport

Not exactly the same though. Floodgates, anyone?

(FWIW, I doubt they'll get any leeway from HMRC. They are in the same boat as everyone else.)

[cojak]

What I find baffling though is investors are found to be the victims of a crime, but there isn't even a hint anywhere else that a crime has been committed, or that the perpetrators should be brought before a court. That mega diamond fraud is the same.

[NotAllThere]

What I find baffling though is investors are found to be the victims of a crime, but there isn't even a hint anywhere else that a crime has been committed, or that the perpetrators should be brought before a court. That mega diamond fraud is the same.

Have the police done anything?


City of London Police opened an investigation in 2018, after the issue was referred to them by Andy Burnham - now Mayor of Greater Manchester.

Two men from the East Midlands were arrested.

But, two years later, the investigation was closed, with the force concluding there was "insufficient evidence to support a realistic prospect of conviction".

City of London Police said: "The decision... was made at commander level and... was also endorsed in a strategic investigation review by a senior officer from an external force."

So they're was enough evidence to warrant arrests, but insufficient to get a conviction. Possibly "it looks like a crime has been committed, but we can't pin it on anyone".