Russell King (New Brunswick Politician)
Russell King may refer to: * Russell King (fraudster), involved in the purchase of Notts County Football Club * Russell King (politician) (born 1940), Canadian physician and politician in New Brunswick {{hndis, King, Russell ...
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Russell King (fraudster)
Russell Stephen King (born 11 April 1959) is a convicted fraudster. He is best known for his part in the doomed purchase of Notts County Football Club by Munto Finance, a subsidiary of Qadbak Investments, which was the subject of a BBC One ''Panorama'' programme. In July 2018, after several years living in Bahrain, he was extradited to Jersey, where he was charged in the Jersey Royal Court with 25 counts of fraud and larceny. In 2019, he was sentenced to six years imprisonment. He was released in 2021. Background King first surfaced in the 1980s as chairman of Celebrity Group Holdings, a publishing company based in Kingston upon Thames, which owned titles such as ''Basketball Monthly'' and which was interested in taking over Eddy Shah's newspaper ''The Post'' and Hamley's toy shop. It also owned Zodiac Toys, which became insolvent in 1990. Along with his business partner Alan Kingston, King was also a director of Kingston Basketball Club. However, in 1991 King was sentenced to ...
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