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Celebrity neighbors and a £70m post scandal: Beaconsfield mansion goes under the hammer for £2.75 million

Source: Landwood Property Auctions

A five-bedroom mansion once owned by a scammer who defrauded Royal Mail of £70 million has gone up for auction after being seized.

Complete with a detached pool house, the near-£3 million property is the former home of Narinder Sandhu, 62, who used the proceeds of an elaborate postage scam to buy it — along with a and a Rolls-Royce.

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