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A CONVICTED fraudster has set up a new company despite shuttering his last one with a string of debt and allegations of fraud.
Brian Goldie, 67, started freight firm Worldwide Airways Ltd in April after claiming he had retired due to a brain tumour.
Now using the name Gerald Paterson, the new firm is the ninth company he has been a director of since returning to Scotland from Thailand after being accused of conning an elderly woman.
Last year pilot Neil Hawkyard told how Goldie had stolen £50,000 from him using another company he had set up called Spin Aviation based in Prestwick.
He has hit out at regulators for allowing the conman to set up a new company amid fresh allegations of fraud.
He said: “I reported him to the police in Kilmarnock and they have done nothing. The insolvency service, HMRC and the banks have done nothing despite being given a catalogue of evidence and information about his activities.
“I’ve been let down, lost thousands of pounds and I am probably not the only one. Now he has set up another company and presumably plans to do the same thing again.
“There are no protections against people like him – and he knows that which is why he’s been able to act with impunity.
“I just hope anyone who goes into business with him knows his real identity and his background but the fact he is now using a different name suggests he’s trying to hide from the past.”
Neil said Goldie convinced him to invest in a fictitious mining project and claimed he was a well-off businessman involved in the transport of precious metals. When he asked for his money back Goldie stopped returning his calls.
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A plane owned by the firm was abandoned at Prestwick Flight Centre after Goldie fled allegedly owing thousands in unpaid bills.
Police Scotland have been investigating Neil’s complaint for the last two years and in October 2023 Spin Aviation was dissolved.
Goldie previously claimed all the complaints made against him were made up and said he had stopped working as he had a brain tumour.
In 1992 Goldie was alleged to have stolen money while working for the Royal Bank of Scotland in Edinburgh. Warrants issued for his arrest were later cancelled.
By then he was in Australia where he stole around £103,000 from Murrin Murrin, one of the world’s biggest nickel mining companies.
After six years in jail there he moved to Thailand and began using the name Brian Goudie. While in Pattaya he conned an elderly woman out of $180,000 after promising to get her son released from prison when he was arrested for child abuse.
He failed to turn up for the trial and is thought to have fled the country, returning to the UK in 2016.
The Sunday Mail contacted Goldie to ask about his latest endeavour but received no response.
A police spokeswoman said: “Enquiries are ongoing.”
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