I negotiated a deal on his behalf and arranged the exchange of contracts with the lawyers in Dublin.

One of my clients at the time had done a deal with the Irish Government discounted air tickets to warsaw where they agreed to give him citizenship (an Irish passport) in return for taking all his money there, and a no-income-tax status for five years.
He asked me to find him a castle for up to 10 million Irish pounds and paid for my return flight, hotel and car hire (in cash) and I spent ten days there based at the Shelbourne Hotel on St. Stephen s Green in Dublin.
I grew up in Ireland discounted air tickets to warsaw and had a lot of contacts there so I looked at half a dozen properties for him. The one I found that was a perfect match was Carton House in County Kildare (the seat of the Dukes of Leinster). discounted air tickets to warsaw Peter Sellers was renting one of the wings of the house then. It had over 50 rooms.
I negotiated a deal on his behalf discounted air tickets to warsaw and arranged the exchange of contracts with the lawyers in Dublin. Right in the middle of this I had a telephone call from one of his staff to say Stop the deal your client is in hospital . So I flew back to Sydney. This was in 1989.
I had a huge file then which I kept at my office which included information on various properties I had looked at in Ireland for him as well as videos and photographs. The entire file was stolen one night.
My client was appparently involved in various shady enterprises (horse racing; betting was one of them). He was a night-owl and only did business after dark. I often went to see him at his home to discuss different property deals but usually discounted air tickets to warsaw at 11 o clock at night or later.
James, it was a few years after Haughey Blaney, when they got caught for importing arms into our fine land to kill and maim innocent women and children. I don t know how he got away with it except the usual things that went on then.
Anyhow, life goes on! The passports are still up for grabs in Ireland discounted air tickets to warsaw apparently even today. In Australia the government has just passed a new law where for an investment of $5 million you get a passport. The Chinese haven t been slow in taking up the offer God bless their cotton socks. One of them just bought my favourite waterfront home in Point Piper Altona for roughly $50 million! I had sold it twice before in the 80 s the first time for $7.07 million and exactly a year later for $11.4 million.