 On the day that Smith was to report with his lawyers to the SFO's offices, he was involved in a car crash and had to be cut from his Audi A8 after having run into a tree.Traffic police found two first class tickets to New York in his briefcase.In 2005, he pled guilty to 10 counts of theft totalling £34m and one of false accounting in respect of his position at Izodia plc.