Crooked eco-businessmen must pay back £1.5m

Three crooked businessmen who fleeced eco-conscious investors out of £23m in a ‘sustainable’ bio-fuel projects in Cambodia are set to pay back less than £1.5m of their profits. Gary West, 55, James Whale, 41, and Stuart Stone, 31, were jailed for a combined 28 years after falsely selling 6000 hectares of land with the promise of annual returns of up to 25 percent. The company, Sustainable AgroEnergy PLC (SAE), planted less than six per cent of the promised area and…