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FCA bans former financial advisor

Chris Hamblin, Editor, London, 10 August 2019

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The UK's Financial Conduct Authority has made an order to ban Neil Williams-Denton, a man convicted in 2015 of two counts of conspiracy to cheat the public revenue and sent to jail for 72 months, from performing any function in relation to regulated activity.

Williams-Denton was a CF1 (director) in relation to an unnamed 'Firm  A'  between 20 December 2002 and 31 January 2014. He was also a partner (CF4) at Firm B (AR) between 14 September 2010 and 31 January 2014, and was a CF1 in relation to Firm B between 1 July 2005 and 9 September 2010.

Williams-Denton worked at Greystone Financial Services. In sentencing him the judge stated that he was dishonest, and created schemes to be sold to high-net-worth clients so that he could benefit financially. The schemes involved conspiring with others in the creation of annual accounts that were required for those schemes to which Williams-Denton was a party. The judge also stated that Williams-Denton knowingly intended to deceive HM Revenue & Customs and that his culpability in the dishonest schemes was high.

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