The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has secured an extra £492,000 from a confiscation order in 2009 against Alan Edwin Gardner, after uncovering additional assets including equity in two UK properties
Gardner was convicted in June 2009 and sentenced to six years’ imprisonment by Worcester Crown Court after an SFO investigation found he defrauded British expats in Jakarta by persuading them to invest in what was a fictitious scheme.
Paul Napper, SFO’s head of proceeds of crime and international assistance division, said Gardner ‘exploited the trust of British people far from home, convincing them their savings were in safe hands while he spent every penny’.
