#3 Lee Murray
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When a man like Dana White, who is no stranger to the mob, describes someone as a “scary son-of-a-bitch and I don’t mean fightwise”, one should take his word for it. If that isn’t enough, a reputation as one of the most brutal drug dealers in East London would definitely seal it.
But all that corroborated by petty theft and assault are dwarfed by his masterminding of the biggest cash theft in British history. On February 21st, 2006, Murray and his cohorts hijacked £53 million from a warehouse.
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While most of the gang were tracked down, Murray and his childhood friend Paul Allen stole away to his father’s home country of Morocco.
Through his father’s ethnicity, Murray was considered a Moroccan national. The absence of an extradition agreement between Morocco and the UK allowed Murray and his partners the leeway for a celebrity’s lifestyle. Murray and Allen spent millions on opulent mansions and a princely lifestyle before they were arrested by a small army of police.
Two of the four, Gary Armitage and Mustafa Basar, were incarcerated in Morocco and released after minimal sentences. Paul Allen was extradited to the UK and served his sentence there before being released for good behaviour.
Murray’s situation was a little more complicated – his Moroccan lineage and possession of cocaine and marijuana ensured that he was jailed there. Britain’s attempts to acquire him in exchange for a terrorist did not materialise.
The man who lost to Anderson Silva in a bid for the Cage Rage Middleweight Championship, currently scratches off the days of his 25-year sentence in a Moroccan prison.
