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Annotation On 8 December 2014, the body of property tycoon Scot Young was found impaled on the railings three floors below his 3million Marylebone penthouse. The police verdict was: no foul play. Apparently by coincidence, five of his inner circle also recently met with untimely demise. In this 'Ring of Death', three also suffered mysterious falls. Russian billionaire Boris Berezovksy, adversary of Vladimir Putin, was found hanged in his Berkshire home. Word has it that all the men who died lost huge money in a poorly judged secret property scheme in Russia, codenamed 'Project Moscow' and masterminded by Berezovsky. Young was engaged in a court battle with his ex-wife over money, and she cha...
On 8 December 2014, the shattered body of bankrupt property tycoon Scot Young was found impaled on the railings sixty feet below his GBP3 - million penthouse apartment. The police said there was nothing suspicious about his death, but a Russian radio station wanted to know: 'Did he jump or was he pushed?' It was soon the question everyone was asking. For six years, Young had been fighting an acrimonious divorce case in the High Court. His wife accused him of hiding his vast wealth offshore. He claimed that he had lost all his money in ill - judge property deal in Moscow, though went to jail rather than produce evidence showing where the money had gone. Though he said he was in debt to the tu...
Over the Easter weekend in 2015, an audacious gang of criminals robbed a safe depository in London's Hatton Garden, the centre of the UK's diamond trade. Shortly before, electrical cables under nearby Kingsway had caught on fire, disrupting the emergency services in the area. Coincidence? Alarms at Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd went off, but the police ignored them. The burglars were caught on CCTV taking jewellery worth up to $200 million. They had used specialist equipment, taking days to tunnel through the walls of the vault. Within a month nine suspects had been arrested and valuables seized from their homes. They were aged between forty-three and seventy-six, including a father and son...
On 8 December 2014, the body of bankrupt property tycoon Scot Young was found impaled on the railings below his ?3-million penthouse apartment. The police felt his death was not suspicious, but a Russian radio station asked: 'Did he jump or was he pushed?' Soon everyone was wondering.For six years, Young had been fighting an acrimonious divorce case. His wife accused him of hiding his vast wealth offshore; he claimed that he had lost it all in an ill judged Moscow property deal, yet opted for jail rather than provide evidence. And although he claimed to have debts of over ?27 million, he was still seen driving a Ferrari and swigging champagne.Then his wife accused him of involvement with the...
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