Maddie conman dead
Mystery over Irish detective accused of swindling €340k from Mccanns
Actor Tom stays warm Helicopter hovers to film the action of employing EX-FBI, CIA and special forces officers, and fancied himself as something of a James Bond character.
He set up a hotline for informants and witnesses but none of hundreds of calls received were listened to at his Us-based firm Oakley Inter-national.
And Halligen claimed to have hired an actor to pretend to be a “drunken priest” who would seek confessions as he toured the bars of Praia da Luz, Portugal, where Maddie disappeared in May 2007.
He said a family with a Maddie lookalike daughter had been paid to set up home in a nearby resort in order to tempt out a potential kidnapper.
The heavy boozer also blew cash on high living. A source said: “He would stay in five-star hotels and order the most expensive food and wine. He lived a playboy lifestyle.”
After being sacked from the Actor Tom races along the roof Maddie probe, Halligen was extradited to America on fraud charges for an unrelated case. He pleaded guilty to cheating Dutch company Trafigura out of €1.45m after they hired him to help free two executives held in Ivory Coast in 2006. Halligen’s body was found on Monday. Police are treating the death as “unexplained” while they investigate. Surrey Police said: “We were called to Cobbett Hill Road, Normandy, Guildford, following a report of a man having been taken unwell, who subsequently died.”
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