RE: [doc] Business Age Magazine article on Chapman & DeLorean

["Kevins Work" <kevin.milliken@xxxx>]

Hi

This might be of interest:

Ciar Byrne
Monday December 16, 2002

Business Age magazine has closed with the loss of 10 jobs.
The title, founded by Tom Rubython, failed to pay staff in November and will
cease publication from January.

Since its launch in 1992 Business Age has been through at least four
different owners.

Rubython sold the magazine to the Dutch publishing giant VNU in 1994 for
?3.2m.

It was closed down one year later only to be revived by businessman Owen
Oyston in 1996, who then sold it to Priori Media Group.

In May shares in the company were sold to two of its former directors, Ian
Richardson and Chris Butt, who had appointed himself the magazine's editor
in 1998, the Sunday Express reported.

The Sunday Express said Butt was hoping to set up a refinancing deal, but
added that if he was successful he would face ?200,000 in claims from
creditors.

Kevin #5959

-----Original Message-----
From: Senatorpack@xxxx [mailto:Senatorpack@xxxx]
Sent: 27 March 2003 21:35 PM
To: doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [doc] Business Age Magazine article on Chapman & DeLorean



Does anyone know of the British business magazine; BusinessAge ( BA )
Magazine?

This article was sent to me form a former DMC senior executive insider at
DMC
New York.

"The magazine has studied the Colin Chapman death for several years and
has
published a number of articles on Chapman's death as it relates to
DeLorean.
The facts illuminated raise suspicions and the mystery continues.
According
to BA journalists, Tony Rubythinon, Anil Bhoyiul, and Jukka Shivonnen,
Colin
Chapman's premature death was masterminded by JZD."

"It was discovered during the company's U.K. bankruptcy hearing that
approximately 17.5 million dollars were missing from the Belfast company's
accounts. DeLorean's bookkeeping showed that this amount had been paid to
Lotus; however, Chapman maintained that he knew nothing about these
payments,
a contention supported by a preliminary audit of Lotus' (accounting)
books.
Just prior to a second appointment with Receiver Sir Kenneth Cork, in
order
to provide his (Colin Chapman) official statement of fact, however,
Chapman
died unexpectedly. Obviously he (Chapman) would have testified that Lotus
had never received the sum itemized by DeLorean, in which case there could
have been a possible 10 year sentence for DeLorean."

"Accounts indicate that prior to the meeting between Cork and Chapman,
DeLorean had tried to convince Chapman to give testimony clearing him
(DeLorean) of any wrongdoing. Of course, had Chapman perjured himself he
would have come under judicial scrutiny himself, a condition which was
obviously unacceptable to Chapman."

BusinessAge magazine suggests that "as a result of his (Chapman)
rebuff -
DeLorean paid 1 million dollars to organized crime associates in order to
manage a "natural" death for Chapman, thereby insuring that he never
completed his final statement to Sir Kenneth Cork."

The facts are curious. "On the day of his (Chapman) death Chapman flew
his private plane to France for a meeting relating to his (Lotus) racing
business. On the flight he apparently carried passengers who were both
uninvolved in his business interests and unknown to him, an obviously
unusual
situation. Chapman never arrived at the meeting and after flying himself
home, according to his wife (Hazel Chapman) could not remember much of
what
happened during the day. He retired early in the evening complaining of
illness and during the night died of a massive heart attack. BA magazine
supposes that Chapman had been injected with DIGITALIS, a drug know to
cause
nearly untraceable heart attack."



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