Tycoon who lost wife to Cesc Febregas gains £3.2m

A disgraced tycoon who paid for his divorce with a massive property fraud after his wife left him for Cesc Febregas has saved £3.2m after appealing against a confiscation order. Elie Taktouk, 50, married Lebanese model Daniella Semaan, in 1998, who left him for the former Arsenal and Chelsea star. The 50-year-old, a director of JMT Property Ltd, was convicted of 11 charges of fraud after property developer Adrian Noël and his father Frank launched a private prosecution against him….