Tax consultant ‘helped out in Ponzi fraud’

The boss of a tax consultancy firm appeared in court charged with plotting to pervert the course of justice with a notorious Ponzi fraudster. Stephen Lewis Allen, 67, is said to have ‘disguised’ Renwick Haddow’s interest in a property in Bayswater, west London, and ‘its availability as an asset’. Haddow has admitted a range of cons including a wire fraud conspiracy relating to a Bitcoin investment scheme. The 51-year-old awaits sentence for the scams in the US. Allen runs the…