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Fake £154m takeover bid ends in suspended sentence

UK investor sentenced after using ChatGPT to forge documents and stage a takeover bid.

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Carmen Cracknell

Southwark Crown Court. Opened in 1983, the building contains 15 courtrooms, making it the fourth largest court centre in the country, and is a designated serious fraud centre.
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On November 10, Christopher Woolcott, of Greenwich, London, was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court for staging a £154m ($202m) takeover bid for Touchstone Exploration Inc, an oil and gas company listed on AIM and the Toronto Stock Exchange. He received a two-year prison sentence, suspended for two years, along with

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