Ireland
In 2002 Peter Foster was living in Malahide, north of Dublin in Republic of Ireland. He was selling alleged slimming pills called "Trimit" through a company called Bellethos and asking investors to buy franchise rights for €200,000.
Peter Foster was deported from Republic of Ireland to Australia in 2003 because of a two-year prison sentence for fraud imposed in 1996 in Britain. The previous day he had landed at Dublin airport on a flight from Paris and was arrested, then spent the night in Mountjoy Prison.
He had been deported from the UK shortly before after a holiday in France.
The Criminal Assets Bureau began investigating him after Australian authorities started proceedings to freeze his assets as he was suspected of being involved in fraud involving slimming pills. The CAB liased with the Serious Fraud Office to examine bank accounts to see if Foster owned them.
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