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Southwark Crown Court heard Entwistle used corrupt solicitors and accountants to approve his loan applications while pretending to be a Windsor-based property developer. Two solicitors and an accountant were also jailed for fraud. Entwistle and Willmett’s solicitors partner Jonathan Gilbert, 45, conned the Royal Bank of Scotland and Northern Rock out of more than £6m, […]

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[Kati]

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The BBC reports Mark Entwistle, 47, Iived a lavish lifestyle spending money at casinos in Las Vegas and on a luxury boat.Southwark Crown Court heard Entwistle used corrupt solicitors and accountants to approve his loan applications while pretending to be a Windsor-based property developer.
Two solicitors and an accountant were also jailed for fraud.

(from the BBC report) - Det Supt David Poole said "Testimony was heard in court about the stress suffered by some whose homes have been sold from underneath them, those who lost life savings and investments, and those who lost jobs."

The judge branded Entwistle “arrogant and greedy, brazen to the last with no expression of remorse”. - I'd have said he was a complete :censored: myself!!

[enaid]

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Nice to see the solicitor and accountants got done too