The Trillion Dollar Conman

The Trillion Dollar Conman
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Publisher : Icon Books
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 9781837731435
ISBN-13 : 1837731438
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Book Synopsis The Trillion Dollar Conman by : Ben Robinson

Download or read book The Trillion Dollar Conman written by Ben Robinson and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2024-10-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the hit BBC 5Live podcast series, The Trillion Dollar Conman is an audacious tale of an international fraud that is stranger than fiction . In 2009, Notts County FC were on the brink of bankruptcy when they were taken over by a mysterious company supposedly backed by the Bahraini royal family. The club was promised millions of pounds worth of investment and a list of marquee players, including Sol Campbell and Kasper Schmeichel were signed, in a recruitment drive led by former England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson, who was appointed to take the club all the way to the Premier League. However, within weeks, as the bills began to pile up, the dream came tumbling down as it transpired that the club, the players and the fans had been tricked by a convicted fraudster called Russell King. The world's oldest professional football club found itself at the centre of one of the most outlandish frauds in sporting and world history, which spanned the globe from Nottingham to North Korea, involving fake sheikhs, fast cars, broken promises and a trail of destruction.


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