Unsuspecting winner of a charity draw for luxury home will be neighbours with gangster-linked businessman
dailyrecord.co.ukThe winner of a £3.5million home in a luxury charity raffle will end up being neighbours with a controversial businessman with gangland links.American firm Omaze are offering the chance to win the six-bedroom property in Gleneagles, Perthshire plus £100,000 in cash and an £80,000 Porsche.But the new owner’s neighbour is taxi tycoon Steven Malcolm who has close links to the feared Daniel crime family and whose £9million mansion also backs onto the world-famous golf course.Malcolm, 59, was with Steven “Bonzo” Daniel at a Rangers match only hours before Daniel almost died in a horrific machete attack.
Malcolm later bought a taxi firm linked to him. Inside £3.5m Gleneagles raffle house complete with cinema room and gym A local resident said: “It’s a stunning house.
But the company, even if they did know, haven't publicised any neighbour details..”One of Scotland’s richest men, Malcolm was last year named as a “deliberate tax defaulter” by HMRC.Convicted fraudster Barry Hughes, previously occupied a house in Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire, owned by the taxi boss.
And for a brief period was also seen at a house close to Malcolm’s home in Gleneagles. Another of Malcolm’s properties, a £260,000 house in Crookston, Glasgow, was home to a convicted drug baron.Launched on Friday, the Omaze charity draw is raising money for the Breast Cancer Now charity and is backed in a promotion by Loose Women and BBC presenter, Kaye Adams.
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