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A self-styled security consultant accused of swindling the Madeleine McCann
fund out of £300,000 is to be extradited to the United
States this week to face fraud charges.
Kevin Halligen, 53, lost his final appeal before the High Court in London on
Friday and will be flown to Washington on Thursday to
face allegations of cheating former business partners
out of £1.2 million.
In 2008, Halligen’s company Oakley International signed a contract to help
find Maddie, who went missing in Portugal a year
earlier.
He said he would use his MI6 and CIA contacts and high-tech surveillance
equipment in the hunt but over six months he came up
with no new leads.
He was arrested in Oxford in November 2009 after fleeing Washington DC when
the US government began seeking an indictment against
him for ‘wire fraud and money laundering’.
US Courts have also ordered Halligen to pay about £4 million to other former business partners who claim he fleeced them.
Halligen had been fighting extradition since his arrest
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Accused: Kevin Halligen, left, is accused of
swindling £300,000 from a fund set up to
help find missing Madeleine McCann, right |
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