article_snippet: A businessman who once owned the world's most expensive home but was then exposed as a fraudster has failed in A businessman who once owned the world's most expensive home claim to claw back
article_snippet: £66million from the taxpayer after A businessman who once owned the world's most expensive home mansion was seized by the State.
article_snippet: Luxurious: The home was once the world's most expensive property when the world's most expensive property went on sale for £70million .
article_snippet: Government lawyers claimed the seizure of the mansion was legitimate because the seizure of the mansion had been bought using the proceeds of crime.
article_snippet: The house in Windlesham, Surrey was said to be the most expensive home on the market anywhere in the world when Surrey went up for sale for £70million.
article_snippet: This image shows the rooftop pool on top of The house in Windlesham in Windlesham, Surrey .
article_snippet: Surrey was owned by property tycoon Leslie Allen-Vercoe, who claimed to have spent £30million on renovating it -
article_snippet: but Surrey passed into the hands of the Irish government when he was unable to pay the mortgage he had taken out with a State-owned bank.
article_snippet: The property was finally sold to an unidentified buyer, said to be a foreign businessman, for £35million in October 2011.
highlights_snippet: Bought Updown Court in Surrey and redeveloped the giant mansion .
  