Crooked investment advisor gets six years

An investment advisor who laundered over £2.5m stolen from pensioners in a cold calling scam has been jailed for nearly six years. Richard Faithfull, 31, rinsed the cash and paid it into the fraudsters’ bank accounts from his office in Leeds between June 2017 and August 2018. He fled to the Ukraine where he lived a life of luxury with the help of organised crime groups, spinning a web of lies as the Financial Conduct Authority and City of London…