British Slumlord Tycoon van Hoogstraaten arrested in Zimbabwe on cash, porno charges

[Ian David]

Africa News
Tycoon van Hoogstraaten arrested in Zimbabwe on cash, porno charges
Jan 26, 2008, 9:35 GMT

Harare - Controversial British tycoon Nicholas van Hoogstraaten has been arrested in Zimbabwe on pornography and illegal foreign currency dealing charges, police said here Saturday.

The pornography portrayed the 63-year-old former London rack- renter with a 22-year-old Zimbabwean woman, said Assistant Commissioner Wayne Bvudzijena.

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Van Hoogstraaten, a billionaire who became Britain's youngest millionaire at age 23 by letting slum buildings in London and allegedly using strong-arm tactics against defaulting rent payers, regards himself as a close friend of President Robert Mugabe, whom he described as '100 per cent decent and incorruptible.'

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Van Hoogstraaten spent four years in Wormwood Scrubs prison in England in the 1960s after being found guilty of ordering a hand grenade attack on a rabbi who owed him money.

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[GCP]

1. I'm sure Maggie Thatcher must have loved him

God, I hate these fuckers.

[juno jones]

2. This paragraph says it all:

He variously referred to his tenants, ramblers who fought with him over the right to walk across his sumptuous estate in Uckfield, East Sussex, and white Zimbabwean farmers as 'scum' and 'filth.'

As my old dad used to say, "It's enough to make one a socialist".

[malaise]

4. A 100% scumbag

but money buys these criminals loads of powerful friends.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

3. Want to see a photo of Mr. Hog Stradler? Here it is....

http://news.aol.com/photos/_p/file-photo-shows-nicholas-van/20080126085609990054

[Ian David]

5. I would argue that images of him having sex are not pornography...

because no reasonable person would find it titillating.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

7. LOL! I agree :) nt

[Dhalgren]

6. This is a "slum lord" that Obama had no connections with!

Just wanted to get that out there!