THE former Highland castle home of former Rangers owner Craig Whyte has gone back on the market after its Russian owner was jailed for fraud.

Estate agents Strutt & Parker are looking for offers over £950,000 for the keys to Castle Grant, near Grantown-on-Spey in the Highlands. 

Sergey Fedotov snapped up the A-listed mansion for £1million in 2014 after it was repossessed from Whyte when he failed to keep up with mortgage payments.

But Fedotov was jailed for 18 months over a £4million fraud earlier this year in Moscow. 

Whyte and then-wife Kim bought Castle Grant for £800,000 in 2006 – with a reported 110 per cent mortgage – saying he would spend millions restoring it.

However, it was taken back into the bank’s possession around the time the businessman’s troubled takeover of Rangers hit the rocks, ending with the financial collapse of the club and its liquidation. 

Whyte was acquitted by the jury at the High Court in Glasgow in July after being accused of fraudulently buying the football club in May 2011.

Originally known as Freuchie Castle when occupied by the Comyn family, the country retreat became Castle Grant in 1694 when the Grant family became the owners. 

The east and west wings were added in 1765.