Mark Thatcher Arrest: Plans to Leave Country Channel 4 News 26 August 2004 The mystery surrounding Sir Mark Thatcher’s arrest in South Africa has deepened. Police have claimed he was planning to leave the country […]
London-based oligarchs face cash probe (Independent on Sunday)
London-based oligarchs face cash probe Billionaires who ‘practically own the Kazakh government’ under investigation for money laundering. Adrian Gatton reports The Independent on Sunday 08 August 2004 Three London-based oligarchs from Kazakhstan, who are understood […]
Britons accused of Guinea coup plot are sued in High Court (Independent on Sunday)
Britons accused of Guinea coup plot are sued in High Court By Paul Lashmar and Adrian Gatton The Independent on Sunday 18 July 2004 An Old Etonian mercenary, a British businessman and a Lebanese oil-trader […]
Abramovich faces fraud probe over sale of gold mine (Independent on Sunday)
Abramovich faces fraud probe over sale of gold mine By Adrian Gatton The Independent on Sunday 23 May 2004 Roman Abramovich, the billionaire owner of Chelsea Football Club, is being investigated by Russian authorities over […]
Russians apply to raid London offices of jailed Yukos oligarch (Independent on Sunday)
Russians apply to raid London offices of jailed Yukos oligarch By Abigail Townsend and Adrian Gatton Independent on Sunday 02 May 2004 The Home Office is believed to be considering an application from the Russian […]
Crash lawyer ‘in fear of Russian spies’ (Evening Standard)
Crash lawyer ‘in fear of Russian spies’ By Nigel Rosser And Adrian Gatton Evening Standard 30th April 2004 A millionaire British lawyer who died in a mystery helicopter crash was being targeted by the Russian […]
Russian tycoon’s British lawyer ‘was a police informant’ (Independent on Sunday)
Russian tycoon’s British lawyer ‘was a police informant’ By Adrian Gatton The Independent on Sunday 25 April 2004 The secretive British lawyer behind the jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky became a police informant only days […]
Mystery Crash: The Death of Stephen Curtis (Channel 4 News)
EXCLUSIVE What was the British lawyer who died in this crash telling British intelligence here about the struggle between the Kremlin and a Russian oil empire? When the closest confidant of Russia’s […]
On the Conviction Trail (Press Gazette)
On the Conviction Trail By Adrian Gatton Press Gazette 15 April 2004 Uncovering Rhino’s secret was all too easy because of the ready availability of US prison records. In 1999 US strip-club Spearmint Rhino stormed […]
Bacardi and choke: US ruling challenged in feud over rival rum from Cuba (Independent on Sunday)
Bacardi and choke: US ruling challenged in feud over rival rum from Cuba Adrian Gatton reports on the latest twist in the decade-long fight for the rights to the Havana Club label The Independent on […]
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