A blunder by authorities allowed a billionaire rapist to travel the world with impunity after he used a different name on his passport, a court heard.
Simon Halabi, a property tycoon who was worth an estimated £3 billion in 2007 but declared bankrupt just three years later, was convicted of a violent rape in France in 1998.
Despite being handed a three-year prison sentence, suspended for five years, and being put on the French sex offenders list, Halabi flew around the world unchecked, conducting business deals which made him hundreds of millions of pounds.
He was able to do so because in France, he was convicted under the name Mohammed Halabi, rather than Simon Halabi, which appears on his British passport.
The conviction was disc…
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