Gregory D. Evans | Ex-Hacker | TV Personality | Author

Interpol is hunting a former Auckland man and his British wife
suspected of masterminding a European property scam alleged to
involve almost $2 million.

The Scotsman newspaper in Edinburgh reported that 20 people
claimed to have paid substantial sums to Nigel Andrews for deposits
for apartments in Turkey, which have yet to be built.

Andrews, 51, and his wife Margaret were reported to have
vanished from their offices in Marbella in June. They had set up a
company called Royal Resorts Turkey.

Spanish police have been called in to investigate allegations
that investors have lost 1 million euros ($1.7m) in a failed resort
development in Turkey.

Police confirmed that Interpol was involved in the hunt for the
couple and that they had made an arrest in Calpe, Alicante –
reported to be Andrews’ brother, Lionel.

The brothers left Scotland for Spain in 2003 after the Vaults
nightclub in Aberdeen’s Carnegie Brae, which they had set up with
another business partner, closed down just five months after
opening, owing about $1.4 million to creditors.

The Bank of Scotland later lodged a petition calling for the
brothers to be made bankrupt.

Nigel Andrews and his wife left Marbella on June 5 after it
emerged their property project would not go ahead because of a
building ban, the Scotsman reported.

An English-language news website in Spain, The Olive Press,
reported that police in Alicante and Marbella confirmed they had
arrested a New Zealand national, Lionel Andrews, in connection to
the Royal Resorts Turkey sales.