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Michael Robert Alexander Brown (born 19 April 1966 in Glasgow), is a Scottish convicted fraudster, who between 10 February and 30 March 2005 donated £2.4 million to the Liberal Democrats. He was the largest donor the party had ever had, giving ten times more than anything it had received before.〔("The man who came from nowhere to bankroll the Liberal Democrats" ), ''The Times'', 23 September 2005〕 ==Biography== Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Michael Brown claimed to have been the son of a lord and to have attended Gordonstoun and St Andrews University. In fact, he had failed his maths O Grade at his local school, and did a City and Guilds in catering at Glasgow College of Food Technology. Brown resided in Majorca, Spain and claimed to have been an international bond trader, whose clients were "vetted" by United States embassy officials and Special Branch before he accepted their money. Brown's clients include former Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards, from whom he was later found guilty of defrauding £8 million out of a total deception of £36 million. In June 2008, after being charged with various counts of fraud and money laundering, Brown fled bail and an arrest warrant was subsequently issued. Brown was last known to live in Templewood Avenue, Hampstead, north-west London. He told various former clients he had been suffering from cancer, then took the surname Campbell-Brown and stopped shaving, before he disappeared.〔 Neighbours of his Hampstead flat said that in the weeks before he disappeared he had changed his appearance by growing a full beard instead of his usual goatee and allowed his usually blond-dyed hair to turn grey. His lawyer disputed claims that Brown changed his appearance to abscond. The City of London police conducted an extensive search both in the UK and abroad, including the home of Paul Strasburger, the fellow Lib Dem donor who put up bail for Brown prior to his disappearance. Brown is believed to have reappeared in the Caribbean in late 2008. Credit cards connected to Brown were used there in September and October 2008 in Antigua and Barbuda, according to reports by a team of private detectives working for two of Brown's creditors. Records seen by ''The Observer'' newspaper showed that a credit card in the name of M. Campbell-Brown—a name used by Brown in the weeks before he disappeared—was used in Antigua and Barbuda at two cash dispensers during this period. In a brazen move, Brown directed his solicitor, Jamil Ahmud,〔http://www.ja-solicitors.com/press.html〕 to issue a statement on his behalf that he had not used any credit cards in the past three years in the Caribbean. Brown's wife of 15 years, Sharon Campbell, remained in Spain. Unlike Brown, she was free to live at their home in Mallorca. However, Spanish police are also believed to be involved in the inquiry. In September 2011, it was reported by ''the Guardian'' that Brown is living in the Dominican Republic under a false identity. On 6 January 2012, he was arrested by the Dominican police. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Brown (fraudster)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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