What would they be living on?

[sandyRoe]

You couldn't imagine there'd be much work for ex-pat Brits in Northern Cyprus.

http://uk.news.yahoo....cyprus-001144227.html

[McMouse]

I would think the proceeds of previous crimes would keep them very comfortable.

[factor-fiction]

Do we know whether they have been involved in previous crimes, McMouse?

[factor-fiction]

I thought it was quite difficult to get from the North to the South in Cyprus?

[Canary42]

Not according to the article

[McMouse]

You're right factor30, I confused this case with the one about the "Most wanted list of criminals living abroad".

[jno]

you can pretty much stroll across the border these days. But Asil Nadir was safe there for years. Don't know why he bothered coming back.

[HowardKennitby]

I think Turkey may have been putting pressure on him to leave as he was seen as a possible block to Turkey joining the EU.

[commoner]

EXPATRIATE....It's a legitimate word toes, it applies to any person living in a country other than the one they were brought up in either temporarily or full time..nothing wrong with it.

[mike11111]

Correct: from the Latin ex patria - outside the homeland. Another word might be emigrants, but not immigrants, from a British point of view.