A decade ago Anthony Constantinou appeared to be the epitome of a Square Mile success story — sitting atop a burgeoning business empire, rubbing shoulders with royalty and striking deals with Premier League champions. His City of London firm had risen rapidly to prominence, making a fortune in a short space of time. This was thanks in no small part to Constantinou’s bullish boasts of high-flying connections and offers of bountiful rewards from low-risk investments. But in reality, his house was built on a web of lies, and when the crash came it was swift and brutal.
Constantinou’s bullying behaviour and predatory abuse of women was revealed, as it emerged he oversaw an office environment likened to the debauchery of Hollywood film The Wolf of Wall Street. Police raided his business empire and discovered that Constantinou was the architect of a £70 million fraud on his clients. Now he is on the run and at the centre of a worldwide manhunt, attempting to evade a 28-year prison sentence in the UK.
