Pay back time for Elizabeth Line fraudsters

Two fraudsters who fleeced more than 800 pensioners out of £32m by luring them into a scheme involving properties along the Elizabeth Line have been ordered to pay back £3m each. Investors ploughed anything between £5,000 and £140,000 into Essex and London Properties Ltd (ELP), which was set up in 2015. Sales staff used forged Land Registry documents stating properties had been bought on the route to trick investors into believing it was a genuine scheme. Two years later officers…