Property millionaires ‘swindled a fortune’ running famous Folkestone hotel

A married couple cheated the taxpayer out of nearly half a million pounds while running one of Folkestone’s most famous hotels, a court heard. Michael Stainer, 74, and Doris Stainer, 60, allegedly applied tax deductions to the wages of 50 employees and pocketed the cash while running The Grand on the seafront of the south coast resort. The Stainers deny cheating the public revenue and fraud by false representation. Anthony Hucklesby, prosecuting, told jurors at Southwark Crown Court: ‘Between April…