A conman who helped Tony Blair’s wife Cherie buy flats at a discount is named in a fake passport scam, writes Nick Dorman in the Sunday People .

Career criminal Peter Foster has obtained false papers in a bid to quit Australia and grab millions of pounds stashed overseas, says an Aussie newspaper.

The Irish passport is in the name of Kevin Anthony McMullan, a New Zealand-born 62-year-old.

Foster, who has served time for fraud and money laundering, is understood to have paid £670,000 for a luxury boat, money believed to have been stolen from a South African investor.

Foster, 53, who has a ­history of going on the run, had a relationship with Page 3 model Sam Fox and in 2002 was linked to Cherie Blair buying flats in Bristol at a discount.