A notorious brothel keeper called Madam Moneybags went to her grave owing the Scottish Courts £780,441, it has been revealed.
Edinburgh pimp, Margaret Paterson, had paid back just £219,559 of her ill-gotten gains when she died aged 66 in September 2019. In 2013, she was sentenced to five years in prison after being convicted for brothel-keeping, money laundering and living on the earnings of prostitution.
Prosecutors are now trying to recover the money from her estate. She is one of a group of wealthy criminals who have been targeted under dirty money laws for failing to hand over £12 million of their dirty cash. Fraudsters, drug dealers and money launderers still owe cash years after confiscation orders were imposed on them by courts.
