Power of Attorney - Locating what my name has been used for

[tinything]

17 years ago i signed Power of Attorney over to a family member. I left England and have not returned. I know accounts were opened in my name: Bank, stocks, shares property etc. I now believe they were used for personal financial gain. I wish to locate the accounts but HOW? I cannot locate my relative.

[ummmm]

What? You think your relative has used your name to to get credit etc?

If so just get a copy of your credit report and it should show up on there.

[tinything]

My relative has used my POA name to obtain shares and bank accounts in order to minimise their own tax. I have no idea what shares or banks i have accounts with but i know they exist. How on earth do i find out?

[themas]

I find it difficult to accept that you went away for 17 years and left someone else in charge of your finances and didn't keep in touch with them or find out what they were doing.

When you went, you presumably had bank accounts etc. You could go to the banks etc. you used then & ask them to trace whether they still hold any accounts for you.

You could use a Tracing Agent to try & track down the relative, &/or try to identify other relatives (through genealogical research if necessary) who might know where he/she is.

[tinything]

When i signed POA over I was young and naive with no reason not to trust my relative. I'm trying to find out what accounts my name has been used for, but I dont know how. Can anyone help?

I returned over the following 5 years, a couple of times per year. Since then i settled overseas and have not been back. It is only in the past couple of years that i started thinking back to the Power of Attorney.