People liked Nicholas "Beano" Levene. He was every bit the larger-than-life stockbroker. He threw fantastic parties. He hired private jets and flew his mates to St Tropez. He hobbed-nobbed with the City's social set, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Richard Caring, the owner of The Ivy and Le Caprice restaurants in London's West End, and those hard-playing property magnates, Vincent and Robbie Tchenguiz. It goes without saying that, Levene, 48, liked a bet. But when the father-of-three was recounting how he took the bookies for £1.1 million – gambling on the number of red and yellow cards in a single ... (full story)