Profile: Jonathan Guinness, Lord Moyne - Requiem for an Irish dynasty

The Independent - London | November 9, 1997| | Copyright

This was meant to be the week that Jonathan Guinness, now Lord Moyne, began the hard sell of his new book on the Distillers takeover scandal.

But all has changed since Swedish police swooped on London in search of the pounds 50m that has gone missing from the Stockholm investment company Guinness took over last summer.

Contrary to the press release accompanying the release of Requiem for a Family Business, published on Friday, the 67-year-old scion of the Irish brewery dynasty is not available for interviews. Nor did he return telephone calls all week. Swedish authorities this week said they ...

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