Shamed Scots lawyer jailed over £1.5m money laundering scam is also wife beater
dailyrecord.co.ukA shamed lawyer jailed over a money laundering racket is a wife beater, the Daily Record can reveal. Iain Robertson, 69, was one of five men locked up for a £1.5million money laundering scam last week.We can now reveal Robertson was convicted for attacking his wife in 1998 when he found out she had gone on a holiday paid for by him but took her lover.A court heard while he spent a night in the cells, she went to a wedding with the boyfriend.
Last week’s conviction came after a Law Society of Scotland probe into Robertson’s law firm in Paisley and centred on four money laundering transactions.The biggest theft involved a multi-millionaire businessman – who owns a UK football club – and saw £985,000 swiped and paid into the firm’s client account.
Robertson has also faced other probes into his professional affairs. In 2016, he was hit with his third professional misconduct charge in eight years after accepting a cash payout in a financial dispute for a man he did not even represent.Ex-con Steven McGovaney had hired him for a £2100 compensation claim for slopping out in jail.
McGovaney sacked him and switched to another firm.But Robertson agreed to a settlement of just £500, without McGovaney’s consent, then held on for 10 months.
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