Two international con artist are beginning sentences totalling
22 years this afternoon, after carrying out an elaborate fraud
on one of Norfolk’s richest men.   George Katcharian and Cemal
Esmene were each given 11-year sentences by judge Nicholas
Coleman at Norwich Crown Court.  On Thursday a jury found
Katcharian, 60, guilty of conspiring to defraud businessman
Graham Dacre out of £12m, and a German church out of 10m euros.
Turkish Cypriot Esmene, was convicted of the fraud on the
Christian philanthropist and laundering the money form the fraud
on the German church.  The fraud took place in spring 2008, when
Mr Dacre was persuaded into parting with a slice of his fortune,
built up through a car dealership.  He believed the money was
going to be invested in a high-yield trading platform, reserved
for humanitarian projects.  But after the money was transferred
to a Swiss bank account, it was never returned.  In May, Alan
Hunt, 65, of Poole and Arthur Ford-Batey, 62, of Carlisle, were
convicted of conspiracy