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Candy brothers victims of property swindle

By Jim Pickard

Published: March 20 2009 21:55 | Last updated: March 20 2009 21:55

The Candy brothers, two of London’s best known property entrepreneurs, have emerged as the victims of an audacious swindle perpetrated by four pensioners who pretended to own a 47-acre Berkshire estate.

The quartet have just been jailed for the fraud, in which the Candys and their bankers, HBOS, bought King’s Beeches, a property once owned by the King of Thailand.

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