Luxury watches seized from a millionaire fraudster at the UK border could fetch upwards of £3million at auction.
Wilsons Auctions, which is expected to sell jewellery seized from disgraced former SNP chief Peter Murrell, is selling the five rare watches – one worth at least £1million – at a 24-hour online auction later this month.
The timepieces were seized by HMRC from a fraud suspect who tried to flee the UK after their multi-million-pound payroll con was exposed.
He’d spent more than £7million of his ill-gotten-gains on luxury watches over a three-year period while pocketing cash from their staff’s payslips via a bogus
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