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Continued speculation that Nugan had faked his own death, including a report from a businessman who said he saw and talked with Nugan while on a trip to the U.S., and was in hiding led authorities to exhume Nugan's body in
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with a gunshot wound to the head, which the coroner concluded was self-inflicted. The crime scene was found to be disturbed with many footprints around the body, which was noted at the time by police. Nugan had acquired a shooter's license on 7 January and then a rifle the following day. The calling
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Nugan was also a director of Nugan Group Ltd, a company his brother
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in 1973 with nominal share capital of $ 1m. Between 1976 and 1979 the bank's reported turnover rose from $ 30m to $ 1bn, as the bank opened offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, the Cayman
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