 The liquidator went on to describe the arrangement to "something akin to a Ponzi scheme", something denied by Gore.The liquidators investigations suggested that between 2001 and 2004, Secured Capital & Finance used investors' money to make interest payments to other investors, forward money to other companies with the Atkinson Gore Group owned by Gore and Atkinson.none of the liquidators claims were tested in a court nor was any public examination undertaken to test the veracity of the liquidators claims.