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Great frauds in history… George Graham Rice's "adventures with your money"
Advice George Graham Rice, AKA Jacob Simon Herzig, made millions from his dodgy share-tipping sheets, pumping up worthless mining stocks.
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Great frauds in history: Kautilya Pruthi’s Ponzi scheme
Profiles Kautilya Nandan Pruthi persuaded a large number of clients including famous sportsman and actors, to part with over £100m, which he used to fund his playboy lifestyle.
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Great frauds in history: Andrew Cochrane-Johnstone
Profiles How Andrew Cochrane-Johnstone's "Omnium" scam grew into the Great Stock Exchange Fraud of 1814.
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Great frauds in history: Charles Keating
Profiles Charles Keating's junk bond scam let the American taxpayer on the hook for $3.4bn.
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Great frauds in history: John G. Bennett Jr’s Ponzi scheme
Profiles John G. Bennett Jr's classic Ponzi scheme cost his investors $135m and ended him ten years in jail.
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Great frauds in history: Robert Vesco’s dubious schemes
Profiles Robert Vesco looted IOS, a Swiss fund of funds, and the funds it ran by having them invest in a web of banks and shell companies that he himself owned.
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Great frauds in history: BCCI – Agha Hasan Abedi’s dodgy bank
Features To all appearances, BCCI – set up by Agha Hasan Abedi – was a legitimate bank. But it was a haven of crooks and criminals, and went bankrupt owing investors $20bn.
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Great frauds in history: Sergey Mavrodi’s Ponzi scheme
Features Sergey Mavrodi turned his computer import business into a financial investment scheme and plundered hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Great frauds in history: Reed Slatkin’s Investment Club
Features Reed Slatkin studied with Scientology's founder L. Ron Hubbard and became an ordained minister in the cult 1975. He used his position to set up an unlicensed investment club.
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