By Margot O'Neill. In Bangkok last year, an Australian businessman named Tim Gatland disappeared without trace. This is the inside story of the former company director who had a hand in the collapse of the Thai economy - and of how the savings of suburban Australia were gambled in the world of global finance. Tim Gatland left behind him a trail linking him to a $4 billion international banking scandal. His story gives insight into the business world of the 1990s.