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...has stopped supporting his three children.

 

SPEAKING after Whyte was handed a 15-year director ban, Hugh Martin revealed his daughter Kim was "not getting a penny" from the former Ibrox owner for herself or their children.

 

CRAIG Whyte ’s father-in-law yesterday revealed the disgraced businessman has stopped supporting his three children.

 

Hugh Martin, father of Whyte’s estranged wife Kim, spoke after t he former Ibrox owner was banned from being a UK company director for 15 years . He said the ban was “irrelevant” as

Whyte was no longer in Britain and may never return.

 

Kim and Hugh have no idea where the liar is living, with Whyte claiming to have been in the US, France and even Albania in recent months. And Hugh said Kim was “not getting a penny” from Whyte for herself or the kids.

 

Whyte, 43, was banned on Tuesday for the maximum 15 years after a court heard his dealings with Rangers were “shocking and reprehensible”.

 

He and Kim bought Castle Grant, near Grantown-on-Spey , for £800,000 in 2006 – with a 110 per cent mortgage.

 

Kim moved out after the marriage fell apart and now lives in England, where the children are at school.

 

Whyte failed to pay the £7000-a-month mortgage for two years and the castle was repossessed in April.

 

He also had a flat in Monaco – but the court last week heard his place of residence was unknown.

 

Hugh, 73, of Giffnock, Glasgow, said Whyte’s director ban was “surely irrelevant because he is not in the UK”.

 

He added: “Even my daughter does not know where he is. She has no clue – no phone number, no email, nothing.

 

“She is getting not a penny – it’s horrendous. He will not support his own children one penny, let alone Kim.

 

“She does not know where he is. She did say he had been in Albania. Don’t ask me why, I have no idea. He gets around.

 

“I don’t think he is in Monaco. Kim thinks he may have given up the flat there but it’s possible he may be there.

 

“He likes to live first class but he does not pay the bills for it.

 

“He was staying in America some months ago at the Beverley Hills hotel in Hollywood. I hope they got paid.”

 

Kim married Whyte in Florida in 2000 and they lived in Monaco and Costa Rica before moving back to Scotland in 2006. They split in 2010.

 

Former steel company boss Hugh said he understood Whyte last had contact with Kim “over a month ago”.

 

He added: “The last time he had the children was in Paris, but he sent them home unaccompanied.

 

“For some reason – whether it’s the police, Inland Revenue, Customs, I don’t know – I don’t think he’s coming back.

 

“There is only one word I can think of to describe Craig Whyte – and that is despicable. I have no idea how he survives, I just do not know.”

 

At the Court of Session last week, Judge Lord Tyre said the case for disqualifying Whyte was “overwhelming”. He added: “He deliberately placed his own interests before those of the company.”

 

Whyte had earlier been banned from being a company director for seven years .

 

Business Secretary Vince Cable applied to have Whyte, 43, banned again after Rangers were liquidated in 2012. Whyte did not appear to defend the action after his lawyers withdrew.

 

Whyte bought Rangers for £1 after agreeing a deal with previous owner Sir David Murray to repay a club debt of £18million to Lloyds Banking Group.

 

He was asked how he proposed to fund the deal, and an email sent on his behalf indicated the source of the money was Liberty Capital, a British Virgin Islands firm owned by Whyte.

 

But he’d been negotiating with Ticketus to provide the funds in exchange for three years of Rangers season ticket sales. He repeatedly lied about the deal after it was exposed, and put the club in administration in 2012.

 

Hugh said: “Ticketus took action against him, he was found guilty, appealed, and was found guilty again. But when they got there, the money had gone.”

 

The Court of Session heard officials couldn’t find Whyte to serve notice of the hearing, and we were unable to contact him for comment last week.

 

When we rang a number previously linked to his Monaco flat, a man with a Scots accent paused briefly and then said we had the wrong number.

 

There was no trace of Whyte at Glasgow offices once listed as the address for companies linked to him. A staff member in a nearby office told us she had no idea what had happened to the companies, and added: “You’re not the first person who’s been here looking for them.”

 

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/craig-whytes-father-in-law-tells-how-4380772

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Don't forget the other 'players' in our soap opera.

 

Some of the others would like to see CW held up as the one and only villan and that includes Sir Duped of Murray.

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