George Cottrell, a British financier and convicted criminal, told Tatler magazine in an interview that he lost $53 million in one night gambling in a casino, after reports that he lost $20 million, writes the British newspaper The Guardian.
Kotrel's ex-girlfriend, Miss Montenegro Anđela Vukadinović, announced at the beginning of July that the story that Kotrel lost 20 million in her presence at the Maestral casino is "completely fabricated and there is no evidence to support such a claim".
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Cottrel lives in Tivat, and the recent Minister of Justice and former high-ranking official of the Europe Now Movement (PES), Andrej Milović, and some other Montenegrin politicians before him, claim that he financed that party and its campaigns.
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In mid-August, Milović announced on IX that Spajić and the prime minister's chief of staff, Branko Krvavac, would deny that Cottrell finances PES, which is why, as he stated, he published photos on that social network, which allegedly show the head of PES with "Cottrell's team ", i.e. Gawain Towler (Gawain Towler), "Cottrell's key campaign man", who "was the man in command for Brexit" (the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from EU).
Cottrell's lawyer Dominik Garner denied that Cottrell financed PES and hired Tauler, but he confirmed that British citizens, including Tauler, participated in the production of videos for the failed presidential campaign of current Prime Minister Milojko Spajić early last year.
In the summer of 2022, Spajić organized a meeting between Head of State Jakov Milatović and Deputy Prime Minister Filip Ivanović with Kottrel, who was also accused of being the owner of an illegal crypto machine in Tivat.
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With Farage for almost a decade
George Cottrell was regularly at Farage's side during the election campaign, including when a milkshake was thrown at him in Clacton.
A former head of fundraising for Farage's former UK Independence Party (UKIP), Cottrell spent eight months in a US prison in 2016 and 2017 after being accused of offering money laundering services on the dark web.
He served time for one count of wire fraud after 20 other charges were dismissed as part of a plea deal.
According to the Guardian, this criminal offense was committed in 2014, before he worked for UKIP or Faraž.
He collects Van Gogh, Banksy, Picasso...
Cottrell told Tatler that he collects works by Canaletto, Vincent Van Gogh and Pablo Picasso, as well as owning a Banksy, saying: “It's a painting of three monkeys, each with the inscription: 'Laugh now, but one day we'll be in charge. ' Banksy will hate that I own his work."
Cottrell, whose lawyers previously told the Guardian his wealth came from a portfolio of investments rather than family money, has never donated to the Reform Party.
However, the MP's register of interests shows that he paid for Farage's £9.250 trip to the National Conservative Conference in Brussels in April this year.
In an interview with The Times in 2017, Fiona Cottrell said reports that her son was rich enough to have a £250 million fund were "ridiculous, absolute rubbish".
Cottrell's mother donated half a million pounds to Faraž
Cottrell's mother, Fiona, recently donated £500.000 to Nigel Farage's UK Reform Party.
Fiona Cottrell gave the money in two tranches just before the general election, making her one of the biggest donors to the campaign, along with Richard Tice, the former party leader, who gave the same amount.
In the months before the election, the Reform Party also received £200.000 from businessman Zia Yusuf, who became the party's new president last year.
He is the co-founder of the janitorial company "Velocity Black".
Jeremy Hosking, who funded Laurence Fox's Reclaim party, donated £125.000 to the Reform Party in June.
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