Sirius Minerals boss pocketed £1.3m as investors lost fortune

Sirius Minerals boss pocketed £1.3m after agreeing takeover that cost many shareholders their life savings  Former chief executive Chris Fraser received £1.3m in bonuses Former finance boss Thomas Staley pocketed a total of nearly £900,000 Fraser and Staley are now running Anglo’s new ‘crop nutrients’ division By Jamie Nimmo For The Financial Mail On Sunday Published: … Read more

‘£20m pocketed’ in the run-up to London Capital & Finance collapse 

‘Businessmen pocketed £20m’ in the run-up to London Capital & Finance collapse By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 23:43 BST, 10 December 2019 | Updated: 23:43 BST, 10 December 2019 Four businessmen arrested over the London Capital & Finance savings scandal are said to have pocketed almost £20million in the run-up to its … Read more

Furloughing fat cat bosses pocketed over £300m in five years

Chief executives at 18 FTSE 100 listed companies furloughing thousands of staff raked in over £300million, or over £3million each, in pay and rewards since 2015, new findings from the High Pay Centre claim. There are mounting calls for highly paid executives to play a bigger part in shouldering the financial burden stemming from the … Read more

Furloughing fat cat bosses pocketed over £300m in five years

Chief executives at 18 FTSE 100 listed companies furloughing thousands of staff raked in over £300million, or over £3million each, in pay and rewards since 2015, new findings from the High Pay Centre claim. There are mounting calls for highly paid executives to play a bigger part in shouldering the financial burden stemming from the … Read more

IN THE MONEY: Shell boss Ben van Beurden pocketed £8.7m last year

IN THE MONEY: Shell boss Ben van Beurden pocketed £8.7m last year despite taking a 51% pay cut By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 23:30 GMT, 12 March 2020 | Updated: 00:33 GMT, 13 March 2020 Shell’s boss’s pay was cut in half in 2019. The FTSE 100 energy business said Ben van … Read more

ASK TONY: Travel agent pocketed £225 of our China holiday refund

Last July, my wife, daughter and I used travel agent Carlton Leisure to book flights to Beijing with British Airways, returning via Hong Kong, with an internal flight between there and Chengdu.  We had planned this trip for the Easter holidays. However, due to the coronavirus, British Airways cancelled our flights and told us to … Read more