Stephen Pigott

[Naughty Zoot]

I ran across this little tidbit & I'm confused about who this Pigott is. I'm not @ home to rifle thru my PSB stuff to find out exactly what his connection is to PSB. Can anyone enlighten me ?


22 years jail for VAT fraud gang

The judge said the crime had been 'audacious and outrageous'

A gang of four fraudsters, including a former US judge and a music producer, has been jailed for a total of 22 years for their part in a £40m VAT fraud.

For over two years the group bought and sold mobile phones through bogus firms, using fake receipts to charge VAT.

Musician Stephen Pigott, 42, of Dubai, was jailed for nine years while ex-New York judge Stacey Haber-Hofberg, 43, of Liphook, Hampshire, received six years.

Two accomplices from London were jailed for 42 months by the Canterbury judge.

Cloned companies

The group made false invoices in the names of existing British companies, using logos from the internet to make them look genuine.

Buyers were then instructed to make payment to the Hong Kong bank accounts of a number of companies set up as "clones" of the British firms.

The type of scam is known as "carousel" because the same goods can be bought and sold repeatedly by the same companies, cheating the tax man out of VAT each time.

Judge Adele Williams labelled the fraud "both audacious and outrageous".

Sentencing the four, she said: "I accept that none of you were the masterminds behind this fraud but each of you played your part."

'Leading light'

Pigott, who has played with pop stars Celine Dion, Rod Stewart and the Pet Shop Boys, had pleaded guilty earlier to cheating the Inland Revenue and money laundering.

He was described as the "leading light" of the group and the court heard he had used numerous fake identities to set up bogus firms in Hong Kong.

Haber-Hofberg, who has served as a New York environmental law judge and is now a music lawyer, was jailed for the same offences after a trial.

She helped Pigott to set up the fake companies.

Pigott then recruited fitness instructor Joanna Harris, 36, and Theresa Ifeyinwa Igbanugo, 38, a record label director, both of Sydenham, south London.

They were also convicted of the same two offences after the trial.

[Hmmm]

He worked on "Yesterday when I was Mad" as a Programmer and remixer..

[Suburban_Boy]

Funny! I just had the same question (after 10 years!!), when my PSB Google Alerts produced this story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... dding.html

So he did a runner!

[lalolalo]

By the way, I've read the guy in Twenty something video got actually in jail for murder.

[Gabby]

That Daily Fail article read almost like it was implicating the PSB in the scheme as well to begin with. Not cool but it sells newspapers (or gets clicks), right?

[oakey]

Funny! I just had the same question (after 10 years!!), when my PSB Google Alerts produced this story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... dding.html

So he did a runner!

Make that 20 years though…

[Suburban_Boy]

Funny! I just had the same question (after 10 years!!), when my PSB Google Alerts produced this story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... dding.html

So he did a runner!

Make that 20 years though…

OMG! I didn’t count an extra decade Ufff I’m getting old.