Holiday property mogul Darragh MacAnthony appeared in a Spanish court yesterday to answer charges that he never delivered furniture packs worth £400,000 to 51 customers. The 36-year-old Irish multi-millionaire and chairman of Peterborough United was summonsed by the Marbella criminal court after the customers filed a complaint against him and his company, MacAnthony Realty International. Lawyer Antonio Flores said the company had acted "in a disgraceful manner", adding: "They never filed for insolvency in Spain. They simply disappeared." Records show that the former holiday home giant moved its registered premises to a ghost office in Madrid where it was placed under the management of a non-trading Peruvian company run by a 90-year-old man. MacAnthony denies the accusations and has blamed the credit crunch, which forced several of MRI's furniture suppliers to fold, and has called the legal action as a "ridiculous suit". The Spanish judge will decide whether MacAnthony and the five other defendants should face the charges of "misappropriation of funds and theft by swindle".
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