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Daily Record
Daily Record
National
Mark McGivern

Businessman who claimed bogus Airbnb 'buyout' hit by new false claim accusations

A business which claimed to have raised a whopping £466,000 via a dodgy crowdfunder says all investors have been paid back.

Grant MacCusker and his son Jamie Stewart have been threatened with legal action after a fundraiser on the Crowdcube website for their Student Rents firm was alleged to have made false claims.

It comes after MacCusker was exposed for concocting a story about another company, Letting Cloud, being bought over by home and room rental online platform Airbnb.

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