Lawyers hunting missing businessman Tony Duggan have taken out adverts in his native Scotland warning him he has to return to Bermuda this week to answer a court case over a $900,000 debt.

Mr. Duggan has not been seen since July last year, when slipped out of the Island under cover of darkness in his luxury catamaran Assegai, shortly after one of his businesses, Precision Engineering-Technical Company, went into receivership with debts of more than $1 million. The advert in The Scotsman newspaper last week lists Mr. Duggan's address as the Perthshire village of Meikleour.

A reporter from the Glasgow-based Herald newspaper contacted the house, but a Mrs. Drummond living at the address denied any knowledge of Mr. Duggan before hanging up the phone.

The voters' roll lists a John and Violet Drummond as living at the house, but the newspaper reported that their relationship to Mr. Duggan was not clear.

And there was no response on Sunday at a house in Edinburgh which is believed to be owned by Mr. Duggan.

Shortly after he fled, another of Mr. Duggan's companies, Office Supplies, also went into receivership with substantial debts.

Eight months ago, Bank of Bermuda obtained an order for $528,651 against Mr. Duggan.

And towards of the end of last year, the Bank won an order at Bermuda Supreme Court, sworn at Edinburgh Sheriff Court, freezing the elusive businessman's assets world-wide.

The advert taken out by Bermuda lawyers Cox, Hallett Wilkinson last week in The Scotsman states that Capital G has taken out an action against Mr. Duggan for $898,63 plus interest and that he has 14 days to respond or the action will be granted.

The notice is dated October 23, meaning Mr. Duggan, or his lawyer, must appear at Supreme Court by tomorrow or Capital G will be awarded the money.