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Charities have been warned to ensure fundraisers are legal after a fake Children In Need collector dressed as Pudsey Bear led a gang which stole from charities.

A fraudster from Lytham masterminded a gang which conned some of Britain’s best loved charities out of hundreds of thousands of pounds.

David Levi, 47, led a gang of fraudsters who pocketed at least £500,000 from supermarket collections that they set up for charities including Children in Need and even had a Pudsey Bear costume

David Levi masterminded the scam which defrauded charities such as Children in Need out of £500,000.

Seven people, including one man from Oldham, have been jailed after an organised fraud which saw public donations worth...

David Levi, 49, led a group of seven criminals who used T-shirts, logos and marketing materials from various charities to set up fake collections at supermarkets across England and Scotland.

A gang of charity fraudsters who conned the public out of at least £500,000 by posing as supermarket bucket collectors have been jailed.

A group of seven criminals, led by David Levi, 49 (pictured), used T-shirts, logos and marketing material from the charities to set up fake collections at supermarkets across England and Scotland.

A gang of fraudsters who posed as Pudsey Bear charity collectors conned the public out of more than £500,000 in a decade-long scam.