25/02/2015

Four Arrested In Multimillion Pound Fraud Investigation

Police investigating an alleged multimillion-pound fraud operation have arrested four people in early morning raids.

Police and customs officers carried out raids at residential and business premises in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire and Surrey at 07:30 this morning.

A 26-year-old man and 32-year-old woman were arrested in Bradford alongside a 66-year-old man in Huntingdon and a 46-year-old man in Milton Keynes.

Police said that an investigation was launched after the Insolvency Service raised concerns about a number of companies being set up to fail, defrauding creditors out of large sums of money.

(MH/CD)


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