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Candy Ventures: Fighting for Justice Against Tech Scammer

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Nick Candy, treasurer of Reform UK, is relentless in his pursuit to bring a con artist, Robert Bonnier, to justice. Bonnier swindled Candy Ventures out of £6.5 million in a fake tech startup deal, leaving Candy to seek legal recourse and demand accountability.

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Candy Ventures: Fighting for Justice Against Tech Scammer

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UK News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now!Candy Ventures: Fighting for Justice Against Tech Scammer. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

On April 27, reform UK treasurer Nick Candy is on a mission to lock up a con artist who tricked his firm out of 6,500,000. Pounds in a bogus tech start of deal. Candy Ventures poured cash into Aqua, Pish as the next Facebook, but a high court judge ruled it was all lies, no app existed, and fake claims. About billion dollar backing from Apple and LVMH sealed the fraud. The court slapped Robert Bonnier with a 4,600,000-pound damages award, plus interest back in November, finding he lied, repeatedly to snag the investment. Bonnier, a 55-year-old Dutch businessman, went bankrupt soon after and hasn't paid a dime. Candy isn't backing down, calling Bonnier a straight-up fraudster who'd be jailed of roles reversed. Bonnier even tried countersuing over a temporary asset freeze, but today's ruling for Mr. Justice Butcher tossed that out for repeated court. Breaches. Now Candy's challenging the Crown Prosecution Service had to investigate criminally and if they don't.

He'll launch a private prosecution under the Prosecution of Offences Act to put Bonnier behind bars. His firm bows to chase remedies across jurisdictions until justice hits. This saga shows no mercy for scammers and high stakes investing. Candy's fight keeps rolling to the cash flows back and accountability sticks.

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