Financial Crime Financial Crime

Legal fraudster Schools set to appeal UK prison sentence

By Martin Coyle
  • 03 Jan 2023 16:13
  • 03 Jan 2023 16:13
A convicted fraudster, who pocketed almost 20 million pounds ($24 million) as part of a 100 million-pound UK legal financing scam, is seeking to appeal his 14-year prison sentence at the Court of Appeal.
Timothy Schools, a former investment manager for the collapsed Axiom Legal Financing Fund, was jailed in

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Martin Coyle

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Martin Coyle is a senior correspondent, based in MLex's London office, reporting daily on bribery and corruption issues in the UK and Europe. Previously he was a senior editor at Thomson Reuters where he covered anti-money laundering, financial crime and regulatory enforcement issues. Prior to that he was editor of The Accountant, the world's oldest accounting publication, and International Accounting Bulletin, a bi-monthly business journal owned by Lafferty.

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