MYW: Aberdeen’s Audacious £23m Affair
Iain uncovers how one game of bridge sparked a £23m fraud global manhunt.
Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling · BBC Radio 5 Live
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Show Notes
Listener Chris sends Iain to 1980s Aberdeen, where a simple game of bridge between two secret lovers sparks one of the boldest fraud plots in Scottish history. What follows is a wild £23 million scheme involving fake passports, forged identities, and an international chase stretching from Aberdeen to Abu Dhabi to the United States.
Meanwhile, Laura investigates the case of a sketchy seagull causing havoc in the shops!
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