Liquidators prepare pre-Christmas payout for PTT victims

Liquidators prepare pre-Christmas payout for PTT victims
Victoria Young
While Steven Robertson started stealing from investors more than a decade ago, the liquidators for his group of companies are just now planning a pre-Christmas payout to creditors.Robertson operated PTT, which stood for Prosper Through Trading, and sold software to mostly elderly people. He would also offer to trade on the financial markets for them when they couldn’t work the technology.Between 2009 and 2015 Robertson’s mostly elderly victims advanced funds which paid for a lavish lifestyle for the businessman including a private h...

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