Jail for compliance officer who forged court document

A banking compliance officer who forged a court document to keep his £60,000-a-year job in the City asked a judge ‘is this serious’ as he was jailed for six months. Adam Lancelot, 39, made headlines in July 2012 after he was convicted of receiving hundreds of pounds in council tax benefit while working for big names such as Barclays Wealth and Bank of America. In September 2014 he landed a lucrative role in the compliance department for currency exchange firm…