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29 June 2022 – today’s press releases

By Mark Valladares | Wed 29th June 2022 - 10:45 pm

Fraud industry booming on the Conservatives’ watch
Independence Isn’t the Answer to Westminster Overreach
Defence spending facing £1.7 billion cut by 2025

Fraud industry booming on the Conservatives’ watch

Responding to UK Finance’s Annual Fraud Report, showing total fraud losses up 8% to £1.3bn in 2021, Liberal Democrat Home Affairs Spokesperson Alistair Carmichael MP said:

On the Conservatives’ watch, the fraud industry is booming. Criminal gangs are lining their pockets at the expense of innocent, often vulnerable people.

People need far better protection from these vile fraudsters, but the Government is leaving them to fend for themselves. Boris Johnson and Priti Patel want to simply pretend

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Posted in News and Press releases | Also tagged Alistair Carmichael, defence spending, jamie stone, jane dodds, richard foord and Welsh independence | 2 Comments

Ed Davey challenges Boris Johnson on fraud

By The Voice | Wed 9th February 2022 - 4:30 pm

Ed Davey used his question to the Prime Minister today to tackle the Prime Minister on the Government’s attitude to fraud:

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey asks if Boris Johnson "understands the hurt he and his ministers" cause fraud victims "when they write them out of the crime figures"

"This government hates fraud… we're helping people any way we can," PM replies#PMQs https://t.co/LkNnzYyQNh pic.twitter.com/nzgSPAyR4C

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) February 9, 2022

He demanded that Boris Johnson correct the record after misleadingly claiming crime has fallen, and apologise to the four million victims of fraud he has written out of the picture.

Seventy-four-year-old Janet had twenty-five thousand pounds stolen by fraudsters.

The money was my mum and dad’s and I just felt I let them down,” she told the BBC.

For Janet and for the 4 million people who fell victim to fraudsters and online scammers last year, fraud is a crime.

Does the Prime Minister understand the hurt he and his Ministers cause fraud victims like Janet, when they write them out of the crime figures, and dismiss fraud as something people don’t experience in their day-to-day lives?

Will the Prime Minister correct the record and apologise?

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Danny Alexander’s photograph used in US scam

By NewsHound | Fri 14th February 2014 - 10:21 am

Danny Alexander’s photograph has been used by a con-man as a device to extract money from an American woman. From the Independent:

Francis Rains received a phone call last September telling her she had won $2.5m and a Mercedes-Benz. A man called her a couple of days later, apparently from a Jamaican number, saying she needed to send money to pay off the tax on her prizes.

In order to convince her to send the money, he sent her a picture of ‘himself’. The picture he sent was a smiling picture of Chief secretary to the Treasury,Danny Alexander.

Two other people,

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Posted in News | Also tagged crime, Danny Alexander and elderly | 3 Comments