Dublin born con-man arrested after defrauding the Find Maddie fund

My name is URL · 25-11-2009 6:08pm #1

A 48-year-old man wanted by the FBI who allegedly defrauded people across the world, including the Madeleine McCann fund, was arrested last night at a hotel in Oxford.

Kevin Halligen, from Surrey, was hired by the Find Madeleine fund as a security consultant. His Washington-based company, Oakley International, was awarded a six-month £500,000 contract by the fund, but Mr Halligen allegedly disappeared with £300,000.

He had allegedly boasted that his contacts in the US capital could provide high-tech satellite imagery to help the search.

He is also said to have made £1 million from links with Trafigura, the controversial Dutch company accused of causing mass illness after waste was dumped on the Ivory Coast.

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You couldn't make it up

phasers · 25-11-2009 6:14pm

Why say he was Dublin born?

Let Britain take the blame for him :pac:

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 25-11-2009 6:16pm

Maybe it was Dublin, Ohio...?

amacachi · 25-11-2009 6:19pm

When are the McCanns going to be arrested for their fraud?

minidazzler · 25-11-2009 6:21pm

Does it surprize ANYONE that he was born in Dublin?

My name is URL · 25-11-2009 6:21pm

amacachi wrote: »

When are the McCanns going to be arrested for their fraud?

Isn't it odd that they payed some guy with no proven track-record a $500,000 contract to help find her..?

ejmaztec · 25-11-2009 6:24pm

My name is URL wrote: »

Isn't it odd that they payed some guy with no proven track-record a $500,000 contract to help find her..?

That's why he's a conman, and almost good at it.:P

ghosttown · 25-11-2009 6:24pm

Read the Times on Sunday last, he set it up well, got recommended by major this and colonel that from a private london club, been at it years. Photo of his Virginia mansion in there too, looks like a nice house, don't know why he bought it though, doubt he'll be staying there much !!