Crooked businessman gave staff TV character names in huge Ponzi fraud

A businessman who masterminded a £1.3m Ponzi fraud that robbed investors of their life savings has been jailed for five and a half years. James Gillingham, 37, who lived in a luxury Singapore waterfront apartment, managed a global cryptocurrency brokerage with thousands of investors. Gillingham was the brains behind the scam in which a fake trading platform was used to dupe victims into making multiple investments between 2015 and 2016, Southwark Crown Court was told. He recruited a gang who…