Reform treasurer ‘was duped to invest in doomed social media start-up’

Reform’s treasurer Nick Candy was duped by a Dutch entrepreneur who pretended to be working with Apple to secure huge investment in a failed social media start-up, the High Court heard. Candy, one of Britain’s best known property tycoons, is embroiled in a bitter legal row with Robert Bonnier, a businessman once handed a record fine for misleading the stock market. Bonnier is alleged to have enticed Candy into a multi-million-pound investment in one of his firms, a fledgling social…