Whisky fraud attacks Britain and Ireland

There are about 48,000 barrels of Scotch aging silently in Martin Armstrong’s warehouses in southwest Scotland. Last year, 17 of them became a problem. Mr. Armstrong usually deals with companies that buy hundreds of barrels at the same time as distilleries, then pays him to store them as they age. In July, he began to receive desperate calls from people who had bought only one or two barrels from an investment team called Cask Whiskey Limited. H…