Cherie's conman is jailed.Byline: FRANK THORNE in Sydney THE swindler SWINDLER, criminal law. A cheat; one guilty of defrauding divers persons. 1 Term Rep. 748; 2 H. Blackst. 531; Stark. on Sland. 135. 2. Swindling is usually applied to a transaction, where the guilty party procures the delivery to him, under a pretended behind the Cheriegate property scandal has been jailed for four-and-a-half years for a loan scam in Australia. Con artist Peter Foster, 44, admitted fraudulently obtaining pounds 120,000 which he said was to develop a Fiji tourist resort. But he spent it on credit card bills, family debts and overdue rent on his girlfriend's Gold Coast home in Queensland. Aussie Foster was the focus of Cheriegate in 2002 when, already a convicted fraudster fraudster Noun a person who commits a fraud; swindler , he helped then PM Tony Blair's wife Cherie to buy two flats in a development in Bristol. And after he took out his loan from the Bank of the Federated Connected and treated as one. See federated database and federated directories. States of Micronesia, he provided false documents and photographs to show the cash was being used correctly. He even said a snap of work at another site was his own fake project. The Crown said: "People cannot use Australia to transfer money that is the proceeds of crime." CAPTION(S): LOAN SCAM: Foster |
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