Leaked documents show businessman went on a spending spree and left a council effectively bankrupt.

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      … that’s a massive fraud, they extradite for that.

      Are you honestly saying I can steal the better part of a billion dollars and hop across the border to Mexico without worry? Because if so I have some life choices to rethink.

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        Are you honestly saying I can steal the better part of a billion dollars and hop across the border to Mexico without worry?

        In other longer articles you find out that it’s nowhere nearly a billion. The Solar Farms used to underpin the investments do exist and are productive. The shortfall in money seems to be mostly in the prediction of future electricity prices.