The solicitor is waiting for us to make a slip so that he can sue us because at the moment he thinks he has got away Scot free, we are hoping that sooner or later someone will champion our cause, possibly an ex-solicitor that now resides in Cyprus could give us some advice 🙏

Is there an ombudsman that could look into this for you. Maybe looking at what can be done on a higher level rather than grass roots would shake the lawyer up and make him do the right thing.

Rosemary

The Cypriot Ombudsman ruled that we were not to blame at all, and it was a contract between the Lawyer and the Bank, but they wouldn’t take it any further 😳

Darn it. It is so obviously a fraudulent act by the lawyer so there really must be a way of making him pay for his crime.

So sorry that you are going through this stress.

Rosemary

The stress has taken its toll on our health with the Wife now diagnosed with Crones disease, yet on the Lawyers Facebook page, he is as happy as Larry 😡

You can either hire solicitor and take him to court or forget about whole thing. Anything else is just waste of time.
I dont see what do you expect to see on his facebook and how will that get you money back.

How many people could sit back and forget about 48 thousand euros!!!!

Rosemary

You won't really find any answers here, perhaps some support but that's about it. Start back at the ombudsman and get advice from him.
Also read my earlier post about proof regarding the mysterious e-mail. The problem is also of course there is so much fraud of this kind going on.
It will have to be tackled step by step.

I hope that one day this happens to you so that you can feel exactly what it’s like to have years of your life wasted, and develop health problems, we were looking for good advice, not to have to reply to someone like you, your comments make me think that you are sympathetic to the wrong party for some underlying reason.

Firstly you have my deepest sympathy on this.

A couple of suggestions.

If you are running up against a brick wall in Cyprus at the moment then I would tackle it again in the UK, the recieving bank is in the UK and therefore the final part of the crime has happened there, dont be fobbed off with the jurisdication excuse because crimes of this nature are frequently global and they are still investigated. Out of interest which Police agency did you try to report it to ?

Have you considered pursuing through the small claims process in Cyprus ? https://www.debitura.com/small-claim...diction/Cyprus

Possibly consider engaging with a dual qualified solicitor in the UK for advice.

Have you spoken with anyone from the press in the UK ?

What was your original engagement with the solicitor for and what were the terms for the transfer instruction (that you originally gave) ?

Peter, I sympathise with yours and your wife's loss of such a large amount of money, it leaves you with a really sick feeling as well as anger.
My husband and I thought we had bought a flat in a Liverpool development, what we didn't realise was we had actually just bought into a speculative investment - which went badly wrong when the developers went into receivership. We didn't buy this flat as an investment property, it was going to be our home when my Brit husband and I (Australian) moved to the UK. We are also an older couple, and we lost just over 100,000 pounds.

It's actually worse for you, because my husband and I must bear some of the blame for being so bloody ignorant. It's a horrible feeling.

To be fair to EU I think he/she was actually giving you good advice, although I can see how the post would be upsetting to you. From what I can tell, your only chance of recovering your life savings is to see a solicitor - or several, if the first/second etc ones aren't what you're looking for.

The only (slim) chance we had of getting any money back was to speak with a solicitor, and we were very, very lucky to find one who was on our side and only cost us 1,200 pounds. It was only due to him that we got 40,000 pounds back, which still left us 100,000 out of pocket.

I wish you all the luck in the world, and if your money was deliberately stolen by your solicitor I hope they get what's coming to them.

Peter, I certainly can sympathise with you - right now we are going through a similar situation to that described above by Spouse of Scouse (albeit different circumstances), luckily we have a red hot solicitor on the case, whether she will be successful remains to be seen.

It may go against the grain but maybe approaching the press might be a good idea.

Firstly thank you so much for your advice and attempt to help which is very much appreciated. Lloyds Bank in the UK now totally refuse to talk to us anymore because we are not their Clients, when it first happened they accepted that the account was being used for fraudulent activity and froze the transactions, but too late to stop our money being taken out, when we said that a large amount going in and out in such a short period of time should have raised suspicions, even with regards to money laundering, they closed ranks.
We were directed to Action Fraud by the UK Police who were a complete waste time and effort, finally stating that because the crime happened in Cyprus, it was out of their jurisdiction.
We will look into the small claims in Cyprus, we didn’t realise one existed, thank you for the link.
We can’t afford to engage a Solicitor to fight a Solicitor unless it was no win no fee, which we are still trying to find.
Would love to put it in the British press, but not sure how we would go about it.
As for the Solicitor, he acted for us in the original purchase which was £100000.00 and then put forward an offer of £40000.00 when we were trying to sell the land, yes in hindsight we should have smelt something was wrong then but we carried on. He advised that we had the money put into his account first and then he would take his fee and give the rest, yes he took £1500.00 before making the rest disappear, refused to accept any responsibility or to give his fee back. We are worried about naming and shaming him because he is so crafty, but if you look on one of the previous posts you will see a copy of the paying in slip he made out, with our name on it, but not our bank or account number. Once again thanks for the advice, if you have any press ideas either in Cyprus or the UK please let us know 👍

Sounds right up the Daily Mail's street.

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