83:. He was cleared of any involvement after proving he was in Tenerife at the time. While many reports were carried in the Scottish press nothing was ever proven against him and he now lives in Thailand. He admitting known well known crime figures in Marbella but told a journalist it was difficult not to, but in fact he was a businessman and had interests in Dreamers nightclub in Marbella and Dreamers Beach Club in Koh Samui. International agencies confirmed at the same time that there were no outstanding warrants against him.
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Douglas, now living under the name Bobby Brown, but travelling happily under his real passport, insisted that the press had embellished and even made up his career as a narcotics trafficker. He cited reports in the Sunday Mail and Sunday People suggesting he was laughing at police stating that
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Scotland yard and Interpol. Investigations continued through 2013 where a "gangsters tea party", made up of Walter Douglas aka Bobby Brown, Sean O'Neil and Michael O'Neil was surveilled in Thailand. It was soon to come to a
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Douglas then fled to South Africa, arriving in and around the last quarter of 2006 with 2 Latvian bodyguards, using the name Bobby Brown and set up shop in Cape Town. Douglas moved freely from South Africa to a number of destinations but always returning to Cape Town, where by now
Douglas and his
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Kingdom with an estimated worth of £20 million. He was allegedly wanted in at least three countries on drug trafficking and gun running charges as of 2003, and Douglas was reported to have had ties to numerous international criminal
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Russian Mafia and Colombian drug cartels.
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