Ex copper attempted £300m VAT fraud

To claim back £300m in VAT is a sizeable amount - especially when racked up within eight months. How did ex copper Nigel Cranswick, 47, do it? Cranswick, the director of a company tagged Ideas 2 Go, claimed to have bought and sold £2bn in computers and phones. The aim was to claim back a huge sum of money from HM Revenue & Customs, making an absolute fortune in the process.