Date published: 23 April 2022
Susan Dalton and Alan Barratt
A pair of fraudsters who were part of a criminal enterprise that tricked more than 200 savers into transferring their pension pots into fraudulent schemes they controlled have been jailed for a total of more than 10 years.
Following a prosecution brought by The Pensions Regulator (TPR), Alan Barratt, 62, of Essex and Susan Dalton, 66, of Rochdale were sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on Friday (22 April) after admitting charges of fraud by abuse of position arising from their roles as trustees of pension schemes.
Barratt received a sentence of five years and seven months while Dalton was sentenced to four years and eight months in prison. The pair were also banned from acting as company directors for eight years following a request by TPR.
The court set a timetable under the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) to investigate whether any of the money taken in the fraud can be recovered from the defendants, with an initial hearing set for 4 November.
The court heard how Barratt – who was extradited to the UK from Spain in 2021 in connection with the fraud – and Dalton were key participants in a high-value pension liberation fraud between 2012 and 2014.
The pair were part of a criminal enterprise which persuaded 245 members of legitimate…
