Son of tycoon to pay back ‘peanuts’ from £38m invoice scam

  The ‘charismatic’ son of a nut tycoon is set to repay less than 2 percent of the £8.1m fortune he made running a £38m fake invoice scam through his dad’s wholesale peanut company. Company director Nicholas Marcou, 50, used his ‘considerable charm’ to woo Barclays bank into handing him huge sums of cash on the back of thousands of deals with supermarkets that did not exist. His dad Dimitrios Marcou, 75, handed the reins of dried fruit and nut…