Eel smuggler can’t remember where his millions went

A pensioner who smuggled more than £53m worth of rare baby eels to the Far East is having difficulty remembering where his profits are hidden because he has dementia. Gilbert Khoo, 67, imported the live elvers from Spain to a barn in the West Country before hiding them under hauls of chilled fish and sending them off to Heathrow. Khoo, seen posing with gold bars in photographs, made millions exporting the critically endangered European glass eels to Malaysia and Hong…

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