[1] In 2000, Sutton was made bankrupt for 15 years by a court in Nanterre, Paris, in relation to a 1995 property transaction in which Anglo Irish Bank lost about 30m francs.
Three judges ruled that Sutton and his partner extracted millions of francs from Clamart III, a company which owned and ran the former headquarters of industrial firm Bouygues.
[1] In 2002, Nanterre's superior court accused Sutton of extracting over 5m francs from a company called Prestige and spending it improperly.
Sutton was convicted of "fraud and stealing or concealing assets" and sentenced to three years in prison which he did not serve as he was ruled to be en fuite (on the run).
[1] In 2009, Lord and Lady Fairhaven sued their lawyers for negligence, claiming that they had lost £8m on property transactions connected to Sutton.