The Trillion Dollar Con Man
BBC Panorama tracks down a fraudster who stole a football club and broke a bank. With his tales of foreign gold and assets worth 2 trillion dollars, the con man fooled politicians, celebrities and the City. He even tricked the former England football manager, Sven-Goran Eriksson, into visiting North Korea to support his scam. So why were so many people taken in, and how did one man run rings round the regulators and authorities?
Sven-Goran Eriksson tells Panorama of the moment he first became concerned about the finances of Notts County's new owners.
The former England manager was hired as director of football by the League Two club in July 2009, just a week after the supporter trust that owned the club sold it for £1 to mystery buyers. The club became embroiled in an elaborate fraud that left it with debts of £7m.
