What is about Air Marshall Sir John Walker, ex-spymaster at the Defence Intelligence Service (DIS) and one of the City's great and the good, and con artists?... more
It emerges that Andrew Mitchell gave help to British cocoa magnate Anthony “Chocfinger” Ward after receiving £40,000 in donations from Ward’s company Armajaro Holdings... more
Real estate investor Hammerson cashes in on property market distress as it agrees to buy London office building Leadenhall Court for £65 million... more
Monte-Carlo SBM, the Euronext-listed operator of the top casinos and hotels in Monaco, reveals it will not be bidding for the former home of the In and Out Club on Piccadilly... more
Esporta, the fitness clubs chain that collapsed under tycoon Simon Halabi’s debt-ridden ownership in the summer, will take four or five years until it is fixed up well enough for creditor Société Générale to sell... more
It may be the middle of a recession and the property is derelict, but estate agents are confident of finding buyers for a £30 million Mayfair house which has just gone on the market... more
Simon Halabi, a one-time star of the London property world, has lost control of seven office blocks in the capital after defaulting on £1.15 billion of loans... more
Poor Stephen Byers wasn’t left with much of a choice when in 2000, as the Government minister in charge, he was responsible for sealing the fate of MG Rover... more
The annual Forbes list of the richest people in the world is published and it is treated as gospel. Yet closer examination reveals all manner of imperfections... more
As Simon Halabi is dropped from one rich list and his place in another is in doubt, his plans to renovate two of Britain’s finest buildings are now being questioned ... more
While the headlines about Citigroup's latest round of bloodletting say 52,000 jobs are being axed, the US bank won't make even half that number redundant... more
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