![]() ![]() Tapped sources of public money after making seemingly inaccurate claims to government bodies Timms’s intervention comes as a special investigation by the Guardian’s Today in Focus podcast reveals a string of events in Garner’s career that raise questions over if he was really as clueless as he has claimed.įorged the signatures of business partners in order to allow him to more easily raise Norton funds Garner has always claimed he was also a victim of fraudsters. In sentencing, Judge Shant QC said: “Had this offence been put on the basis of dishonesty, or one where it was said that you had gained personally significant amounts of money, the court would have no choice but to send you to immediate custody.” Garner received an eight-month suspended prison sentence last year, with the judge saying the former gamekeeper would probably have been locked up if the Pensions Regulator, which was prosecuting the case, had alleged dishonesty. ![]() He also managed to use Norton’s brand to secure himself a cameo role in the 2015 Bond film Spectre and travelled with a government trade mission to China on Theresa May’s jet when she was prime minister. The parliamentary inquiry follows years of reporting on the scandal by the Guardian, which exposed how senior government ministers feted a businessman called Stuart Garner, who acquired Norton with £1m borrowed directly from a pension fraud, received a further £10m that was raised via a pension liberation scam a decade ago and then illegally invested that money into his own business.ĭuring that period Garner received a series of publicly funded grants along with tributes from the likes of the then chancellor George Osborne. Timms said: “I very much sympathise with the frustration of the victims of this case that justice does not appear to have been done.” ![]()
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