A SCOTS soldier who had his account emptied by fraudsters was told bankers wouldn’t freeze his money unless he called them in person – despite the fact he was fighting the Taliban on the Afghan front line in Helmand Province.
Daniel Lawson, 22, had £1600 taken from his account and asked his dad John to tell Abbey National chiefs. But they insisted that he phone them from the war zone direct – for security reasons.
Private Lawson, 22, from Edinburgh, has been fighting in Afghanistan with the Black Watch for the past six months.
But the soldier’s bank refused to do anything about the theft – unless he called their offices personally.
The young squaddie can only make very limited phone calls back to Britain for operational reasons.
And he is unable to go through the bank’s telephone system as phone lines out of the Afghanistan are often blocked by army chiefs.
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