‘Ex Charlton star Richard Rufus scammed £15m’

A former Premier League footballer scammed his friends and family out of millions of pounds by promising them incredible returns in a pyramid scheme, a court heard. Ex-Charlton Athletic defender Richard Rufus, 47, had dupes flocking to invest in the foreign exchange market between May 2007 and April 2012. He drove a Bentley and lived on an exclusive private estate on the money he was swindling, Southwark Crown Court heard. Lucy Organ, prosecuting, said: ‘He scammed friends, family and associates…