He made £5m – pays back 5k

A corrupt broker who helped con vulnerable pensioners out of £5m so he could fritter away his share of the profits on cocaine and high living was ordered to pay back just £5,000. Aaron Petrou, 49, was part of a ‘boiler room’ scam gang which used cold-calling and aggressive sales techniques to persuade elderly victims to invest in plots of agricultural land. One 60 year-old victim was persuaded to hand over the money he received after his wife’s death -…