Peter Tait, a fishing skipper and a director of the
Fraserburgh-based Klondyke Fishing Company, two years ago was fined £40,000
after he and three other members of his family admitted landing illegal catches
worth more than £6.5million in Shetland and Peterhead. They were also ordered
to forfeit more than £700,000. A total of 31 skippers and three firms were
fined just under £1.8 following the “Operation Trawler” inquiry. They falsely
declared catches to evade the EU fishing quotas allocated to their vessels and broke
European regulations introduced to preserve fish stocks by landing tons of
herring and mackerel between 2002 and 2005.
Tait has now paid just over three million pounds for the
B-listed, six bedroom Edwardian mansion in the upmarket Rubislaw area of
Aberdeen in what is believed to be the most expensive house sold in Scotland
this year.
So crime pays after all.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/black-fish-scandal-skipper-snaps-4795558
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