One of my family businesses took quite a few cheques off Tony over the years, he never once asked for a better deal, they were always good, paid on time and I never heard of him owing anybody. So it might have been him.
We were dealing with his development company, first and last project as he didn’t pay.
The two scenarios we thought may have occurred was either he paid as a screw you to the state, or his company got seized and an administrator settled debts.