FINE ME POUNDS 1m PLEASE M'LUD; Holiday cash conman asks for huge fine to skip jail sentence.(News) From: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) | Date: August 9, 2002 | COPYRIGHT 2002 Scottish Daily Record & Sunday. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: ANDREW WALKER

POUNDS 1m

A MILLIONAIRE holiday firm boss tried to beat jail yesterday - by asking to be fined POUNDS 1million instead.

The astonishing plea came from Ian Cowper, 55, who was tour company Thomson's top man in Ibiza for 26 years.

He faced Scotland's first ever money-laundering trial after embezzling POUNDS 2.4million from the holiday giant.

Cowper was yesterday convicted of embezzlement at the High Court i...

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