CHARLIE'S PAL IN pounds 2m GANGLAND MONEY MYSTERY; EXCLUSIVE Crimelord hunts star's business partner.by MAGGIE BARRY THE ex-business partner of football legend Charlie Nicholas Charles "Charlie" Nicholas (born December 30 1961) is a former Scottish professional football player. He started his career with Celtic, making his debut in 1980, at the age of 19. is at the centre of a pounds 2million gangland cash mystery. Former night club boss Jim Milligan vanished at the same time as crimelord Tom McGovern began asking after the missing millions he claims are owed to him. Milligan - who ran a series of pubs and clubs with ex-Celtic player Nicholas - went to ground last month after their entertainment empire went bust. He left behind debts of up to pounds 1m and has left creditors baffled as to his whereabouts. But last night the Scottish Mirror was told that slippery Milligan is wanted by McGovern for allegedly running off while owing him pounds 2m. Sources claim McGovern's brother Tony had been using Milligan as a front to launder Launder To move illegally acquired cash through financial systems so that it appears to be legally acquired. drug money. Now Milligan has disappeared - and so has the money. Receivers acting for Milligan and Nicholas's company, Jimmy Nick's Properties Ltd, have been unable to trace him. Milligan's ex-partner, Nicholas, said yesterday: "I have no idea where Jim Milligan is." Fraser Gray, of receivers Kroll, Buchler Phillips, added:""We have had no contact with Mr Milligan. "We don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. where he is. We have heard he may be out of the country but we have no information on that. Charlie Nicholas has been to meetings with us on various matters. "But, as far as I am aware, it was Mr Milligan who conducted matters to do with the day-to-day running of the business." Milligan and Nicholas formerly owned the Morven bar in Balornock, Glasgow, where drugs baron Tony was gunned down last year. By that time, the bar was under new ownership. Now Milligan is being hunted by McGovern in his bid to get back the missing millions. The insider said: "I wouldn't like to be in Milligan's shoes when McGovern catches up with him." Milligan, who until this incident was on close terms with McGovern, is understood to have contacts in both Spain and South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. . The underworld Underworld See also Hell. Unfaithfulness (See FAITHLESSNESS.) Ungratefulness (See INGRATITUDE.) Unkindness (See CRUELTY, INHOSPITALITY.) Aidoneus epithet of Hades. [Gk. Myth. source went on: "The talk is that there are overseas accounts somewhere, where the money has been stashed away. He's been really stupid." As well as the Morven Bar, Milligan and Nicholas owned the Cafe Cini establishments in Glasgow and Greenock, which was firebombed last year. That incident was believed to have been part of an ongoing feud feud, formalized private warfare, especially between family groups. The blood feud (see vendetta) is characteristic of those societies in which central government either has not arisen or has decayed. between Milligan's former friends, the McGoverns, and a former criminal associate known only as The Iceman Iceman Body of a man found sealed in a glacier in the Tirolean Ötztal Alps in 1991 and dated to 3300 BC. It has revealed significant details of everyday life during the Neolithic Period. . He is an ex-partner of the McGoverns and the man thought to have been hired to assassinate as·sas·si·nate tr.v. as·sas·si·nat·ed, as·sas·si·nat·ing, as·sas·si·nates 1. To murder (a prominent person) by surprise attack, as for political reasons. 2. Tony McGovern. He succeeded - outside the Morven bar in September last year - after a previous botched botch tr.v. botched, botch·ing, botch·es 1. To ruin through clumsiness. 2. To make or perform clumsily; bungle. 3. To repair or mend clumsily. n. 1. attempt at McGovern's home in Bishopbriggs, near Glasgow. CAPTION(S): HAVING A BALL: Milligan and Nicholas built up a pub and club empire around Scotland; MURDERED: Tony McGovern |
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