A Liverpool developer became a Dubai crypto kingpin. Now he’s accused of defrauding investors out of $400 million

A Liverpool developer became a Dubai crypto kingpin. Now he’s accused of defrauding investors out of $400 million

Dear readers — today’s story is written by Matt O’Donoghue, an investigative journalist whose work has appeared in The Times and on Channel Four, and who has produced documentaries for BBC’s award-winning Panorama series. The story follows Peter McInnes, a once-notorious name in Liverpool who has traded in his old life as a property developer for one as a Dubai-based crypto kingpin. It picks up on threads of reporting Matt has carried out over t…