ICO breaks silence on Bank of America fraud case

Data regulator has maintained a 'no comment' policy for months

Tom Allen
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ICO breaks silence on Bank of America fraud case

A loophole in the law means one CIO, who lost £400,000 to a scam, is struggling to get his case heard.

Last year we wrote about Wayne Johncock, former CIO at Centrica and founder of Super Learning Series, who - with his wife Nicky - had fallen victim to a sophisticated scam run from inside Bank of A...

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