FORMER Rangers owner Craig Whyte has stopped paying child support to his family, the father-in-law of the disgraced businessman has claimed.
Hugh Martin, father of Mr Whyte's estranged wife Kim, spoke after the former Ibrox owner was banned from being a UK company director for 15 years.
Mr Martin said his daughter has no idea where Mr Whyte is living - although he could be in the US, Monaco or even Albania - adding she is currently "not getting a penny" for herself or their three children.
Mr Whyte, 43, was banned last Tuesday from being a company director for the maximum 15 years after a court heard his dealings with Rangers were "shocking and reprehensible". Judge Lord Tyre said his business conduct was "characterised by dishonesty".
He and his former wife had bought Castle Grant, near Grantown-on-Spey, for £800,000 in 2006 with a 110 per cent mortgage.
Mr Whyte failed to pay the £7,000-a-month mortgage for two years and the property was repossessed in April.
He also had a flat in Monaco but the court last week heard his place of residence was unknown.
Mr Martin, 73, of Giffnock, East Renfrewshire, said Mr Whyte's ban from being a director was "surely irrelevant because he is not in the UK". He added: "Even my daughter does not know where he is. She has no clue - no phone number, no email, nothing. She is getting not a penny - it's horrendous. He will not support his own children [with] one penny, let alone Kim. She does not know where he is. She did say he had been in Albania. Don't ask me why, I have no idea. He gets around.
"I don't think he is in Monaco. Kim thinks he may have given up the flat there but it's possible he may be there. He likes to live first class but he does not pay the bills for it.
"He was staying in America some months ago at the Beverley Hills hotel in Hollywood. I hope they got paid."
The Whytes married in Florida in 2000 and lived in Monaco and Costa Rica before moving back to Scotland in 2006. They split in 2010.
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