Officers from the Scottish Illegal Money Lending Unit, with the assistance of partner agencies, searched the premises of a suspected illegal money lender in Aberdeen on Thursday 5th December. The investigation has primarily centred on the Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire...

The Scottish Illegal Money Lending Unit, part of Trading Standards Scotland are pleased to announce the publication of the research that was commissioned into illegal money lending in Scotland. This is the first research commissioned by the team and the first Scottish...

In 2018-19, the Scottish Illegal Money Lending Unit awarded a grant of £100,000 to Scotcash to deliver the ‘Money MOT’ programme. Scotcash was established in 2007 to provide affordable loans, help with setting up bank and credit unioin savings accounts and with...