Nadir was giving evidence at the Old Bailey where his trial for theft is in its fifth month. The former head of Polly Peck International (PPI) is accused of siphoning off £150million from his business empire. The company was put into administration in 1990 with debts of £550million. Nadir, of Mayfair, central London, denies 13 specimen counts of theft amounting to £34million between 1987 and 1990.

2.  FORMER fugitive tycoon
Asil Nadir told a court today that
he fled Britain because he was a
"broken man without hope".
 Nadir said he could not see how he
could get a fair trial on theft
charges in 1993.
 His offices had been raided, his
papers seized and there was an
allegation that an attempt had
been made to bribe his trial judge.
 Nadir, 71, said: "I was a totally
broken man. My health was in
tatters, my hope of a fair trial was
in tatters, I had zero hope of
receiving a fair trial."

3.  Nadir was giving evidence at the Old
Bailey where his trial for theft is in its fifth
month.
 The former head of Polly Peck
International (PPI) is accused of siphoning
off £150million from his business empire.
 The company was put into administration
in 1990 with debts of £550million.
 Nadir, of Mayfair, central London, denies
13 specimen counts of theft amounting to
£34million between 1987 and 1990.
 He fled Britain for his native Northern
Cyprus before he could be tried, returning
voluntarily in August 2010.
 The prosecution says his flight from the
country for 17 years is evidence of
dishonesty.
 When administrators went to Northern
Cyprus to recover assets, they found the
money had vanished into a "black hole", it
is alleged.
 But Nadir told the 11 jurors that he was
not guilty of theft, although he did not
dispute the money was transferred out of
Britain.