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By Andy Silvester A long-awaited report into the behaviour of the banks at the centre of the HBOS Reading scandal has been pushed back – meaning victims remain without closure more than a decade on from one of Britain’s worst corporate frauds. In January 2017, six people – two of them former HBOS staff – were convicted for criminal misconduct between 2003 and 2007. A near-£250m loans scam run by corrupt staff and consultants dragged around 200 innocent business owners into severe financial distress. Some of those victims are still waiting for the conclusions of an independent review into wheth…

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