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          TOWIE star Lewis Bloor ‘used a fake name to dupe elderly victims in £3million diamond scam’, court hears

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          TOWIE star Lewis Bloor used a fake name to con elderly victims in a £3 million diamond scam, a court heard today.

          Bloor, 31, allegedly posed as “Thomas Harkin” to dupe investors into buying the precious stones at a 600 per cent mark-up.

          TOWIE star Lewis Bloor ‘used a fake name to dupe elderly victims in £3million diamond scam’, court hears
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          TOWIE star Lewis Bloor used a fake name to con elderly victims in a £3million diamond scam, Southwark Crown Court was told[/caption]

          TOWIE star Lewis Bloor ‘used a fake name to dupe elderly victims in £3million diamond scam’, court hears
          Bloor appeared on the hit ITV 2 show from 2013

          Around 200 people, many of whom were elderly, were allegedly fleeced of more than £3 million by fraudsters working for two firms, Imperial Assets Solutions (IAS) and Henderson & Forbes.

          Southwark Crown Court heard Bloor was paid £150,000, with some of the money paid on to others, by IAS, before leaving to pursue his television career.

          Bloor joined the cast of ITV2 reality show The Only Way Is Essex for three years from 2013.

          The court heard that another employee, Max Potter, 25, told a friend in messages: “They have all got great big Rolexes and Porsche jeeps.”

          ‘VERY PERSISTENT’

          He said said his cousin, who ran the company, “is 28 and he’s a millionaire”.

          One alleged victim, Michael Williams, described Bloor as having a “very persistent style” which “subtly put pressure on me”, the court heard.

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          Prosecutor David Durose QC said: “Mr Williams said he was made to feel that he was buying a valuable item at a fair market price which would quickly go up in value with little risk.”

          He said Mr Williams bought a stone for £5,978.70, while Bloor was paid £896.81, or 15 percent of the investment sum.

          “These diamonds were marked up by five or six times so that’s probably about the sort of figure that IAS would have actually paid for the diamond,” he said.

          “Fifteen per cent of the investment disappeared straight away, was not going anywhere near the price of the payment, and Mr Bloor knew that, of course, because he received that money.”

          Fifteen per cent of the investment disappeared straight away, was not going anywhere near the price of the payment, and Mr Bloor knew that, of course, because he received that money


          Prosecutor David Durose

          Bloor, of Buckhurst Hill, Essex, denies conspiracy to defraud between May 7, 2013 and July 1, 2014.

          He is on trial alongside Joseph Jordan, 29, from Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, George Walters, 29, from Beckenham, Kent, Potter, of Enfield, Middlesex, Nathan Wilson, 28, of Brentwood, Essex, and Simon Akbari, 27, from Loughton, Essex, who also deny the charge.

          Both of the firms involved purported to be specialist brokers for people wanting to buy or sell investment grade stones, the court heard.

          People were cold-called and sent glossy brochures with quotations from the world’s leading diamond company De Beers.

          COLD-CALLED

          They also showed office addresses in a prestigious Canary Wharf skyscraper and Antwerp, the worldwide home of the diamond trade, the court heard.

          They were sold the coloured diamonds as a genuine investment which would increase in value, it was heard.

          But the stones, which were bought from a wholesaler and sold on with a mark-up of around 600 per cent, could never have been a legitimate investment, it is alleged.

          The trial continues.

          TOWIE star Lewis Bloor ‘used a fake name to dupe elderly victims in £3million diamond scam’, court hears
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