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BRIT BUST
Mallorca-based Brit arrested at Madrid airport over scheme to help Russian oligarch evade sanctions
By Walter Finch
National Court released Masters on bail having confiscated his passport.
According to the indictment, Masters stands accused of various schemes to disguise the ownership of ‘Tango’, including using shell companies and false documentation to evade detection and deceive financial institutions.
The Brit allegedly devised a scheme to use the false name
POLICE have arrested a man after he allegedly wandered out onto a busy street, dropped his pants and exposed his private parts in front of schoolchildren.
Police received a call that the 39-year-old Spanish man was ‘causing problems’ on a road outside a school in the La Soledad neighbourhood.
“He had dropped his pants and was mak-
‘Fanta’ for the yacht in order to hide from financial institutions that payments in US dollars were ultimately for the benefit of Tango and Vekselberg. It is thought
Masters earned around €800,000 for these ‘fraudulent’ services, to keep Veksel-
Curious kids
ing obscene gestures towards passers-by, while touching his private parts,” police said.
Police said children were craning their necks out of their classroom windows to see what the fuss was about.