Why Farage's mates love Montenegro

Seeking to dodge scrutiny over his failure to declare millions in donations, Nigel Farage is doing his utmost to keep the focus on his anticipated re-coronation as MP for Clacton-on-Sea, with Count Binface gobbling up most of the remaining column inches. But this very British scandal has an overlooked international dimension, linking Essex to a rather different coastal locale — tiny Montenegro, the Balkan nation where key Farage backer “Posh” George Cottrell has made a home and set up a network of companies. Montenegro, a country of just 650,000, is unfamiliar to many Britons. Yet it’s an obvious choice for shady get-rich-quick and money-laundering schemes. I was once driven along the casino-studded Adriatic coastline by a former Montenegrin MP on his way to do penance at a monastery for h