2:00pm Friday 14th October 2011
TRAGIC lawyer Stephen Curtis pocketed £18million for setting up a money laundering scheme for a Russian oligarch, a court was told.
Mr Curtis, who died in a helicopter crash in 2004 as he returned to his home, Pennsylvania Castle on Portland, made a name for himself running his own law firm in London specialising in commercial and property transactions.
But it was his introduction to the Russian tycoons which catapulted him into the world of billionaire businessmen, private jets, super yachts and the inevitable intrigue that accompanied the lifestyle and dealings of the super-rich.
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