A few reasons some of these clients invested in this product: The instrument was derived from Raiffeisen bank in Switzerland. It was supposedly capital protected and one of the guarantors was Lloyds of London. So you could see why an investor would think or feel secure moving forward with this.
Putting that aside, Investors invest at their own risk or are aware that some sort of risk is involved. The bigger problem and issue at this point is that the client in spite of the fact that they had lost money in the investment, the funds have matured since and hence are expected to pay back the remaining amount of what is left. Neil Roy and his cohorts from the bank are not paying out the funds and they are just making contrived excuses under the guise of due “diligence”. That is actually true, irrefutable, criminal behavior. these people need to be held accountable.