This is the Guardian.

Today, the first in a two-part investigation,

how a luxury British motorcycle brand,

became the vehicle for a multi-million-pound pension scam.

It's a story that I became involved with about three years ago.

Simon Goodley is an investigative reporter with the Guardian's business desk.

His thing is drilling into the finances of big companies.

He's worked on huge global investigations, like the Pandora papers and the Uber files.

He went undercover to expose illegal working conditions at Sports Direct.

But there's one story that he keeps coming back to.

An investigation he did alongside ITV News back in 2020,

into a huge pension fraud at one of the biggest names in UK manufacturing.

Where's the money gone, Stuart Garner?

Have you benefited from the millions of pounds that you've had?

Norton Motorcycles.

Then run by a man called Stuart Garner,

a man who sold the promise of a return to an era when British engineering led the world.

And the hand-built British Norton that just kind of delivers everything with a little bit more

swagger and a little bit more exclusivity than the mass market superwipes that we're out there today.

A man who seemed to rise to the very top of public life.

His company receiving a string of endorsements from some of the most senior politicians of the day.

He was invited onto the Prime Minister's jet and received gushing praise from Chancellor George Osborne.

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