Asil Nadir plans to return to UK

zookeeper


Joined: 17/03/2010
Posts: 168

Message Posted:
08/06/2010 12:11

According to this newspaper he plans to clear his name.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1284686/Asil-Nadir-fresh-attempt-return-Britain.html

malsancak


Joined: 23/08/2009
Posts: 2874

Message Posted:
08/06/2010 12:23

NCFP has an article about this plus the 11 million TL tax bill he received just before the April 2009 election, in which he supported the winning UBP

http://www.northcyprusfreepress.com/2010/06/08/cyprus-todays-owner-wanted-for-fraud-in-uk/

jimmyG


Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 900

Message Posted:
08/06/2010 12:31

He's been saying this for years!!

Geoff


Joined: 25/06/2008
Posts: 1370

Message Posted:
08/06/2010 13:07

No chance of it.

Geoff

Suffolk



Joined: 31/08/2008
Posts: 222

Message Posted:
08/06/2010 13:10

This is an interesting piece written by Craig Murray in January 2006

I was head of the Cyprus Section of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office when Asil Nadir of Polly Peck fled the UK while on bail (an old scandal you could google).



Nadir was in a hotel in North Cyprus, and I was discussing with MI6 a plan to kidnap him and bring him in to one of the UK sovereign base areas on the island.



The plan was blocked because, in a case recent at that time, the House of Lords had ruled that anyone taken unlawfully and brought into our jurisdiction could not be held and tried.



It ran through my mind again when considering the Athens case. The joy of extraordinary rendition is, of course, that you are not bringing them in to this country, where they would have the protection of the courts, but you're kidnapping them and taking them to places where they can be abused and tortured.



Returning back down memory lane to the Nadir case, I am convinced there was complicity by the authorities

Suffolk



Joined: 31/08/2008
Posts: 222

Message Posted:
08/06/2010 13:11

Returning back down memory lane to the Nadir case, I am convinced there was complicity by the authorities in his escape. The police surveillance unit was stood down for the bank holiday weekend to avoid the expense of paying them overtime (I am not making this up). He plainly knew this was going to happen, because within minutes he was in a fast car (driven by a professional racing driver) who drove him to an airfield where a private plane was waiting with engines running.



There were many in the then political establishment who had taken Nadir's shilling and didn't want him in the witness box. That is why I was looking at extreme measures to get him back.



But you will have to wait until I have finished my second book, and it's been banned, before you learn more of that

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
08/06/2010 13:53

Suffolk

Where is your booked banned, UK or TRNC? You could always get it published in Australia, they like ex-spies!



Richard

jimmyG


Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 900

Message Posted:
08/06/2010 13:58

Brinsley the author is Craig Murray.

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
08/06/2010 14:09

Msg 8

The only Craig Murray I could find was an ex-British Ambassador not a bricklayer!



Richard

fiendishpaul


Joined: 18/05/2008
Posts: 1720

Message Posted:
08/06/2010 14:12

I think if you re read Suffolk's post you will find that he is quoting Craig Murray. Suffolk, as far as I am aware is not Craig Murray.



Paul

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
08/06/2010 14:15

Msg 10

The pit falls of speed reading!



Richard

Suffolk



Joined: 31/08/2008
Posts: 222

Message Posted:
08/06/2010 15:08

Brinsley - correct!

Craig Murray

Writer and broadcaster





Craig Murray is a human rights activist, writer,

former British Ambassador, and an Honorary Research

Fellow at the University of Lancaster School of Law.

wynyardman



Joined: 15/12/2007
Posts: 4580

Message Posted:
08/06/2010 20:48

Any chance of an introduction to The TRNC auditors of Polly Peck?



My balance sheet needs the benefit of a bit of creative accounting.



I dont think we will see Azil Nadir again in the UK!



wynyardman (old enough to remember)

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
08/06/2010 21:04

There is a well scripted book by his Sister, Bilge Nevzat ghost written by Gill Fraser called 'The Turquoise Conspiracy' which is well worth a read. However, Ms Nevzat is a very rude person who does not reply to posted letters nor emails on a subject far away from the concerns of her Brother. No accounting for common courtesy!



Richard

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
09/06/2010 00:11

elizabeth foresyht lives here with her lovely mum who has done bubging jumping etc peggy mcalpine. i beleive elizabeth did the time for azil

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
09/06/2010 00:20

Liz

The family seek public sympathy yet act in a discourteous manner. No excuse, just a bunch of nouveau riche social climbers with no class!



Richard

sloan



Joined: 24/02/2009
Posts: 808

Message Posted:
10/06/2010 21:31

Conviction quashed, Liz.



QUOTE:



After his flight two associates of Mr Nadir were convicted of offences but both were cleared on appeal. His former secretary, Elizabeth Forsyth, had her conviction for money laundering connected to the Polly Peck case quashed. She now lives in northern Cyprus. Peter Dimond, the pilot who flew Mr Nadir out of Britain, was also cleared after the Appeal Court found that Mr Nadir’s bail had lapsed at the time he left.



SOURCE: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article7145186.ece

sloan



Joined: 24/02/2009
Posts: 808

Message Posted:
10/06/2010 22:06

Am reading 'Asil Nadir - the rise and fall of Polly Peck' by David Barchard (from Kyrenia libray). Unfortunately, the story stops in 1992, but I noticed there is another book about him on the shelf and I hope that goes to a later date. It is fascinating reading and gives a great insight into life in North Cyprus in Nadir's childhood and trading days.

AnthonySmith


Joined: 14/05/2009
Posts: 455

Message Posted:
10/06/2010 22:21

Craig Murray obviously didn't do his homework. Nadir didn't flee. His bail lapsed. Simple fact. Are there charges outstanding? Who is saying? And the TRNC, with the Kemal Kemalzade case, showed it will work for justice - it's handed a lot of rogues back to the UK despite there not being an extradition treaty - but Turkish Cypriots will be tried here and sentenced here.

Nadir has been pushing this line for ages. Nothing new in the stories.

cemaliye7a


Joined: 06/06/2010
Posts: 239

Message Posted:
14/11/2010 20:52

Where is Asil Nadir at the moment? Does anyone know where exactly he lives right now?

cyprusharv


Joined: 16/12/2008
Posts: 423

Message Posted:
14/11/2010 20:59

I was wondering the same (msg 20)

the butler


Joined: 22/06/2007
Posts: 1958

Message Posted:
14/11/2010 21:00

He is staying in a house in Mayfair, London, UK.

swannee7


Joined: 21/08/2009
Posts: 394

Message Posted:
14/11/2010 21:01

Still believed to be at his rented premises somewhere in jolly old Mayfair !

Pugwash


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 1797

Message Posted:
14/11/2010 21:05

Seems it will be about a year before the trial.

cemaliye7a


Joined: 06/06/2010
Posts: 239

Message Posted:
15/11/2010 08:10

whereabout in Cyprus was he used to live?

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
15/11/2010 08:11

message 25



He has a property here in Lapta.



Chris

cemaliye7a


Joined: 06/06/2010
Posts: 239

Message Posted:
17/11/2010 19:25

Many thanx for your reply ))))))