Tony Freeman is the man
running Pinnacle(here is selling in Asia Last week)
properties http://www.pinnaclemcglobal.com/ (confirmed
in a phone call today) – these are the news items concerning him:
Quick Cash For Properties
was a front for him to rip off more people:
SCOTLAND'S worst charity conman is today accused of cashing in on the
misery of house repossessions.
Tony Freeman - who pocketed millions of pounds donated to breast cancer
sufferers - is linked to a firm targeting families battling to keep their
homes.
The 43-year-old crook's partner Lindsay Hamilton, 28, is listed as a
director of Quick Cash For Properties (QCFP).
Callers to the firm are told Freeman also works there. QCFP offers to
buy and rent back the homes of desperate families facing the threat of
repossession.
But sections of the boom "mortgage rescue" industry have come
under fire for making people financially worse off and forcing them on to the
streets.
Livingston MP Jim Devine said he had been appalled when Freeman was
released early from jail after cashing in on cancer. He added: "This is an
issue I will be speaking to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith about. It is wholly
unacceptable an individual with a track record like Freeman should be anywhere
near a firm targeting the weak at this time."
Freeman's Paisley-based Solutions RMC raised £13million for breast
cancer charities in six years but only £1.5 million went towards helping
patients.
When he was jailed for 18 months in 2006, it was not for conning donors
but for stealing £450,000 from RMC as it was going bust.
The Sunday Mail last week tracked down Freeman and Hamilton to a
£500,000 mansion in Cheadle Hulme, Greater Manchester. QCFP's registered office
is in Edinburgh but calls to their freephone number go to an office a few miles
from the couple's home. When a reporter called asking to discuss a mortgage
with Freeman, we were told he was "on the other line".
The staff member added: "He's in the office all day today until
about 4 o'clock so you should be okay to call back at any time."
Firms similar to QCFP have been accused of paying much less than the
market value of homes and of using agreements which allow them to force tenants
out.
Msp Margo MacDonald, patron of the Scottish Breast Cancer Campaign, said
last night: "Any officers investigating him under proceeds of crime laws
would want to assure themselves the capital to start this business didn't come
from previous illegal activities. He should be investigated further."
Last night a spokesman for QCFP claimed Hamilton had resigned from the
company.
He added: "Mr Freeman does not work for them and is not authorised
to represent them in any way.
"Qcfp shares office premises with other businesses. It follows
therefore that Mr Freeman being in the offices of QCFP is not evidence he is
working for them.
"It is not disputed Companies House may still have Ms Hamilton
recorded as a director but she resigned in October."
In a statement, Freeman said: "I am now trying to rebuild my life
that I destroyed over six years ago."
These are the directors of
QCFP:
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Of these: Mills, Jewel,
Tappin and Beesley are all directors of Pinnacle Companies and Hamilton is
Freeman’s partner.
Their ‘Head Office’ is
postbox in a shop – 275 Deansgate – this was confirmed in a visit last week:
PINNACLE MC GLOBAL NETWORK
LIMITED has a net value of -£147k
PINNACLE MC GLOBAL LTD –
has applied to be struck off
The parent company of both
Pinnacle Companies is Mason and Vaughan Holdings Ltd which lists its website
as: http://www.tonyfreeman.co.uk (source:
duedil)
Extract from Linked-in https://www.linkedin.com/in/yvonnelawrence61
