Tycoon in Murder Trial Faces Investor Fury Over Lost Millions

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For more than a decade, Harvey Boulter was a go-to guy for investors seeking hot British technology start-ups. Holder of a UK security clearance, he was a gatekeeper for Ministry of Defence-backed projects touted as revolutionizing realms from blood screening to diagnostics testing.

His past as an aerospace banker at UBS Group AG helped convince Middle Eastern royalty, veteran business executives and disparate UK expatriates to commit some $670 million to ventures marketed by Boulter’s Cayman Islands-registered Porton Capital, named to echo the MOD research center. ...