Also from The Mail, more detail on the apparent windfall following MM’s disappearance which was also reported by The Telegraph...
“It was conspicuous that he had boasted about a sudden financial windfall after he returned from Portugal in 2007. Friends remember him telling them that he had found cash in a pile of clothes, large sums of money, after breaking into a home in the Algarve.
'In addition to a mobile home, he also used the money to buy a derelict factory property in the state of Saxony-Anhalt.”