Years of scrounging on the streets of Shahr-e Kord in western Iran meant that Talat Habibian was never anything more than a local beggar to his neighbours.

So when he was found dead in his squalid home, no one suspected that the dishevelled tramp who spent his life pleading for money and favours was a real-life slumdog millionaire who left behind a vast fortune.

Poor Riches, from Internet