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Britons Stephen Burton and James Wellesley indicted in US for ‘$99.4M Bordeaux Cellars wine-based fraud’

Stephen Burton - Bordeaux Cellars

United Kingdom citizens Stephen Burton, 57, and James Wellesley, 55, have been criminally indicted for fraud and money laundering at federal court in New York for an alleged $99.4 million wine-based investment scam known as ‘Bordeaux Cellars’, which was the trading name for companies in England and Hong Kong.