Body found in missing UK oil executive search

Missing: former oil executive Carole Waugh

Scotland Yard

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Eoin O'Cinneide

 03 August 2012 09:58 GMT

A body has been found in the hunt for a female British former oil executive who vanished over three months ago and whose bank accounts and personnel possessions have been raided.

Police have not yet identified the body, discovered in a London suburb on Thursday night, as that of Carole Waugh, who has reportedly worked for a least one Libyan oil firm.

The hunt for the 50-year-old took a further twist with reports that police are investigating the theory that she may have worked as an escort.

Waugh, a former Veba Oil executive, has reportedly not been heard of since mid April after which her accounts were raided by, in some cases, people who have been impersonating her.

Scotland Yard previously said the last…

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