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Tag: Fraud

Bank staff save frail pensioner from con

VIGILANT bank staff saved an 82-year-old man from being conned out of his life savings. The frail pensioner had gone into a branch of the...

Secretary in £2.5million tax fraud

A SECRETARY who claimed £2.5 million in an elaborate tax scam has been jailed for five years. Israr Ul Haq Javid was also banned from...

Pensioners consider using crime to get ‘an easy life’

INCREASING numbers of elderly Scots being charged with criminal offences has been blamed on high poverty levels. The pensioner ‘crime wave’ was revealed in figures...

Benefit cheat lied to authorities to pick up £25,000 of ‘support’ money

A BENEFIT cheat swindled £25,000 over three years by lying to the authorities about her living situation. Patricia Sullivan, 53, from Newtongrange, told officers...

Police reconstruct moment man was shot in health club car park

POLICE have reconstructed the moment when a man was shot outside a health club in Edinburgh last week in a bid to jog gym-goers...

Card skimming warning at RBS machine on Princes Street

By Amanda MacMillan A NEW warning has been issued for people using cash machines in Edinburgh after a card skimming device was discovered attatched to...

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