Comment by rwmj

The UK police have essentially given up on fraud[1]. The amount of fraud and scams going on here at the moment is incredible. It would be expensive and difficult for the individual contractors to sue him, I expect most of them have "moved on".

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/feb/20/online-victim-... quote: Fraud now makes up 42% of all crime and only one in 700 fraud cases resulted in a conviction in 2019.