"We always cooperate fully with the authorities and will also be speaking to Emirates to inform them of the scale of the problem in order for them to either work with us or form their own approach to this."
I don't see what this has to do with Emirates? The people who invested are all adults capable of making their own decisions about what to do with their own money. Naive and possibly greedy adults but that is not Emirates problem or responsibility.
What is for sure is that the money has gone and isn't coming back. I don't suppose Carlton Huxley are working for nothing so this is just throwing more money away.