Fraud specialists are to examine a string of “suspicious” property deals in Scotland highlighted by a Sunday Times investigation.
More than a dozen flats in Edinburgh and Glasgow are owned by the family of Ali Dabaiba, a former Libyan government official who was a member of Colonel Muammar Gadaffi’s inner circle. Police Scotland detectives are investigating claims Dabaiba stole millions of pounds as head of infrastructure projects in Libya and amassed a Scottish property empire with the proceeds.