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   Justice for Pensioners - November 12th, 2015 at 9:13 am

   According to the report …. “This is not the first time a financial entity has received a suspect package, although to date they have all turned out to be hoaxes.” Much as we are disgusted by the illegal activities of banks, financial product supplies and the wretched countries (like Luxemburg and the Isle of Man who give them sanctuary) behaviour like this can never be justified – hoax or not.

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     mariamadrid - November 18th, 2015 at 8:44 am

     These people are scum, from the spivs selling financial garbage, to the financial product suppliers/banks and to the governments of “tax havens” where they go to hide from the law, they ALL deserve long prison sentences.

     And the regulatory authorities in places like Guernsey, Isle of Man and Luxemburg should be investigated for protecting criminals, disbanded and replaced with lawful and trustworthy establishments.

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   pjames - November 17th, 2015 at 9:09 am

   looks like they have upset someone.

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     Spiddy - November 17th, 2015 at 7:07 pm

     Surely not.

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   PG Wodehouse - November 20th, 2015 at 7:54 pm

   Much has been reported about the scam artists working for devious and illegal “investment scheme” companies structured in corrupt off shore tax havens and peddled in Spain by conmen.

   But spare a thought for the VICTIMS, the thousands of elderly people who were deliberately targeted by these crooks. Many of them have undergone nervous breakdowns, developed serious illnesses and suffered premature death all due to the stress and pain inflicted on them in the name of greed and dishonesty.

   One wonders if jail is too good for them.

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   sonmaties - November 20th, 2015 at 8:43 pm

   Well I don’t wonder if jail is too good for them, – it definitely is. These thieving banks, and all the other lying scumbags that conspired or worked with them are the lowest type of vermin. If there was any justice they should be stripped of all their present and future assets, including their pension plans, be made to start paying back the money they’ve stolen, and be banned from working in any financial business for life, – before being punished for their crimes.

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     Premier Sharehoders Group - November 22nd, 2015 at 10:46 am

     Most of the “investment products” peddled by these sociopaths in Spain were Ponzi Schemes which were fraudulently advertised as “Low Risk” when High Risk.
     Or Tax Avoidance schemes when in fact they were Tax Evasion scams.

     Pensioner/investor’s capital was coalesced with huge bank loans to buy “assets” at overvalued prices and once investors money stopped flowing into the scam they turned into zombie funds with the administrators unable to sell the assets at a profit, forcing them to hold resources much longer than anticipated, eventually turning them into ghouls.

     These schemes were designed to attract capital into inept “funds”- for example those operated by the Isle of Man based Premier Group – which were seemingly designed to profit the fund directors and ragbag collection of cohorts, but rarely benefited the investor.

     Put simply. Pensioner’s life savings were taken by sociopathic conmen who published fraudulent claims about investment schemes/funds. And because they were based in uncontrolled tax havens (like the Isle of Man) they knew that the government regulatory authorities (joke) would not intervene to stop their fraud.

     To learn about psychopaths/sociopaths and how to protect oneself from them read;
     “The Sociopath Next Door: The Ruthless versus the Rest of Us” by Martha Stout.

     This reveals how an alarming 1 in 25 of the population are Sociopathic with a complete lack of conscience and, operating on the edge of law, rarely getting caught, are able to charm and deceive their way through life in total disregard for the impact on other people.

     Also helpful to identifying psychopaths /sociopaths:-

     “In Sheep’s Clothing” by George Simon,
     “Political Ponerology” by Andrzej Lobaczewski
     “The Mask of Sanity” by Hervey Checkley
     “Without Conscience” by Robert Hare,

     All deal with different aspects of the phenomenon and help us celebrate the 96% of us who do have a conscience.

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   sonmaties - November 20th, 2015 at 9:11 pm

   They’re no different to the despicable fake “gasmen” that prey on trusting and vulnerable pensioners by entering their homes under false pretences in order to rob them of their savings.

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   Justice for Pensioners - November 23rd, 2015 at 4:42 pm

   Justice for Pensioners was formed to help (potentially an unlimited number of) pensioners when fraudsters steal their life savings… anything from bogus builders promising to repair roofs to financial companies conning them with fraudulent investment schemes.

   The Isle of Man based Premier Group assured pensioners that their “SITIRS” equity release scheme was entirely legal – in the event it was an illegal tax evasion scheme. The Premier Low Risk Fund which relied on extensive bank borrowing to buy volatile assets was also a high risk deception.

   Both “schemes” drew in large amounts of pensioner´s life savings and were/are permitted simply because the island’s incompetent “regulatory” bodies allow them to be permitted!

   Defenders of theft/fraud attempt to transfer blame onto the pensioner/victims by accusing them of being “greedy” in chasing an extra 0.01 % interest or seeking to legally avoid tax. However greed, for all its shortcomings, is NOT illegal, whereas receiving bank transfers obtained by fraudulent means is most certainly illegal.

   Please stop accusing elderly people, who lose their life savings to sociopathic financial product providers, of greed and instead focus on the fraudsters who obtain this money by deception and so-called “offshore governments” who turn a blind eye to this indefensible behaviour.

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     cabra de montaña - November 30th, 2015 at 8:35 am

     The Isle of Man Premier Group and its assortment of Ponzi Scheme “investment funds” have wreaked havoc and misery amongst elderly people who were tricked into believing the dishonesty and lies published by them in their glossy sales brochures … To suggest that these pensioners were “greedy” in attempting to obtain the best interest/return on capital accrued over a lifetime of hard work is outrageous and judging by the obese waistlines of Premier directors Mr M. Richardson and Mr J. Bourbon (photos on the internet) it is they who are the “greedy” ones and not the thousands of pensioners who they drained of their life savings and sometimes homes.

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   Mr and Mrs Reply - November 24th, 2015 at 8:09 pm

   The Isle of Man. A secretive, off-shore tax haven.

   The World Bank places the Isle of Man economy in the top 10 out of 214 international economies in terms of Gross National Income (GNI) per head of population . A wealth that is disproportionately shared with a small affluent elite of prosperous resident tax avoiders and highly paid government employees at the top and, because the island’s domestic economy is struggling, a large number of Manx people are subject to a modest standard of living and in some cases real poverty.

   It has been described as a place that intentionally creates regulation for the primary benefit/use of those not resident in their geographical domain with that regulation being designed to undermine the legislation or regulation of another jurisdiction and with the secrecy jurisdictions also creating a deliberate, legally backed veil of secrecy that ensures that those from outside the jurisdiction making use of its regulation cannot be identified to be doing so.

   Complicated? Well that’s the essence “secrecy” and clearly the process works as the island accumulates vast wealth so unaccountable that they claim credit for it without actually accounting for what it is!

   But to attract wealth to the island means maintaining a “reputation” of secrecy and reliability involving the constant cost–benefit analysis of any “complications” arising . So when an island based finance company is accused of “irregular behaviour” the island´s “regulators” have to decide which is the most cost-profitable course: – keep quiet and ignore matters or settle with the dissenters. All in a cold analytical process in the name of profit and secrecy and nothing to do with ethics, morality or human decency …

   Tax Havens. Offering total secrecy to a privileged few to the suffering of many.

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     bustedflush - December 17th, 2015 at 5:45 pm

     As a victim I have found the past 10years a huge learning curve. I had no idea that Rothschilds were as they are. I have been amazed by the sheer blatant lying and manipulation both in the selling of the product and indeed in their defence of the product and the behaviour of their staff. Everything said by all of you above is true, the question is, what to do about it. All this offshore stuff is outrageous.
     Rothschild Group | Our Values
     https://www.rothschild.com/…rothschild/our_values/
     The Rothschild family motto ‘Concordia, Integritas, Industria’ translates as ‘Unity, Integrity, Entrepreneurship’. This has underpinned the family’s actions for more …
     So that’s alright then?

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