Bent financier fights for his pension

A former City boss who fleeced his employers out of £3m and blew the cash on sports cars and jewellery is fighting confiscation of his £50,000 pension. Simon Olver (corr), 41, doctored paperwork to convince French financial giant Industriel et Commercial to pay £2,941,166 into his personal bank account. The head of finance, accounting, reporting and tax was caught when his personal bank alerted the authorities about the huge amount of money in his account. They believed the payments he…