A fake tanning tycoon who was an associate of one of the world’s most wanted men is opening a private health centre in Scotland’s biggest city. Sandra Vaughan worked with gangster Daniel Kinahan but is now putting a major investment behind Glasgow’s Sur Wellness, which she claims will offer plastic surgery to rival the famous Harley Street in London.
It’s the 54-year-old’s return to the business world after she quit as CEO of boxing promotions firm MTK Global in July 2020 – a company previously run by Kinahan, who last year had a $5million bounty put on his head by the US authorities. Members of his Dubai-based Irish family are wanted over crimes including murder, firearms and drug trafficking.
Concerns have already been raised about the Kinahans’ influence in Scotland after the Sunday Mail revealed last May how they had links to a Scottish firm called Kynoch Boxing Promotions and Management, which has run a series of fights across the country. Millionaire businesswoman Vaughan came to prominence when she paid £10million in 2008 to buy out the worldwide Fake Bake business, a spray-tan which has been used by a host of celebrities.
