New details have emerged of how the millionaire fraudster and Liberal Democrat donor Michael Brown escaped justice.

• The Liberal Democrats’ biggest donor paid for a Dominican businessman’s honeymoon while conning him out of £201,000 in an oil deal, the Daily Mail can reveal.

Fugitive: Oil deal conman Michael Brown with his wife Sharon in 2008

Michael Brown ‘craftily’ paid for Cesar Polanco to take a trip to the Bahamas with his new wife to win his trust.

But when Mr Polanco asked what was happening with the £1.5million oil deal they had signed together, he was fobbed off – before being told he could not have his money.

Brown was hauled before a court in the Dominican Republic, jailed for three months and ordered to pay Mr Polanco and others back the total amount.

But so far he is understood to have only made the first payment – meaning Mr Polanco and his father-in-law, who also invested in the deal, are still £135,000 out of pocket.

Brown fled to the Caribbean island in 2008 after being sentenced in absentia in Britain to seven years in jail for a multi-million-pound fraud. 

His victims have demanded that the Liberal Democrats give back the £2.4million he gave them but the party has refused.

Now it appears that Brown’s flight from British justice has brought him the same kind of trouble he would have faced had he stayed at home and faced the music.