The secret life of the British Bali 'drug queen': Her global property empire and her links to London's glitsy party circuit
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But perhaps the most revealing insight into the lives of Julian Ponder and Rachel Dougall can be found in Cyprus where, we have been told, they own a villa, not in tourist hotspots Larnaca or Paphos, but in Kyrenia, in the Turkish-held enclave of Northern Cyprus.
This part of Cyprus has gained a reputation — rightly or wrongly — for being a ‘gangsters’ paradise’ because, unlike the rest of Cyprus, there is no extradition treaty with countries such as Britain.
People in Kyrenia are used to doing business in cash. The couple’s three-bedroom home, which they are believed to have acquired around three or four years ago, is worth around £120,000.
Mr Ponder, says an expat who lives in Kyrenia but who wishes to remain anonymous, was a ‘bit of a jack-the-lad’. He was ‘well-connected’ and ‘always had lots of money’.
Both he and Miss Dougall were part of a hedonistic ‘party scene and rich crowd’.
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