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Friday, December 12, 2014

Crime pays a dividend

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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