Scotland: the Moldovan Connection
How modest homes in some of Scotland’s poorest areas became prolific ‘company factories’, and how those companies were used in a giant Moldovan bank fraud
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John Helmer: Financial Times Makes Igor Zyuzin a Hero for Standing Up to Putin
A case example of how Financial Times Moscow bureau reporters give advertorial promotion an oligarch applying to the City of London to raise debt and equity finance, buying London and country real estate; and deterring investigation of their business with British libel law firms.
Read more...A Billion-Dollar Bank Fraud in Moldova, and 20,000 Opaque British Corporations
The role of UK Partnerships in a $1Bn bank fraud in Moldova
Read more...The Not-Brexit Negotiations as UK Referendum Looms
While virtually no one expects a Brexit, history suggests would be naive to expect the upcoming negotiations between the UK and EU to be a cakewalk.
Read more...Bill Black: New Labour Leaders Want to Go Back to Blair’s Policies That Blew Up the UK
How Tony Blair sold deregulation, and why his bad prescription is so hard to kill.
Read more...Ilargi: Will Austerity Be the Straw that Breaks the EU AND the UK?
Cameron thinks he’s riding a major victory, and he will now be called upon to deliver on his election promises, which just so happen to include a deepening and acceleration of austerity measures.
Read more...Bill Black: The Economist Must Retract Its Racist Headline Immediately
The UK election results provoked the Economist to reveal its racist tendencies.
Read more...UK Elections Today: Unpredictable, But Depressingly Little Room Between the Parties on Austerity
By David Dayen, a lapsed blogger. Follow him on Twitter @ddayen While in this country somebody’s probably writing up an early analysis of the 2024 elections, for UK elections they do quick-strike campaigns only lasting a handful of weeks. And today voters cast their ballots in an election most observers agree will really get interesting […]
Read more...Dubious FX Broker CWM FX Claims Sports Celebrity Scalps, but Princess Anne Remains Unmolested
The CWM FX fraud bust, a murder, Princess Anne and some groping. It’s BAU in the world of sports sponsorship.
Read more...Bryan Cook in the Media: How the Scammers Behind Virgin Gold Mining Corporation Bit Off More Than They Could Chew (IX)
The Virgin Gold scam hits the press, along with London Capital and Bryan Cook
Read more...The Money Laundering Web: HSBC, Margaret Hodge, Sir Alan Duncan, Vitol…and Mossack Fonseca
Fallout from the HSBC session of the Public Accounts in which Mossack Fonseca’s name cropped up and Margaret Hodge administered a few tongue-lashings
Read more...Mapley Fights Back: How the Scammers Behind Virgin Gold Mining Corporation Bit Off More Than They Could Chew (VIII)
It’s high time I updated the APGMI part of the saga of Virgin Gold Mining Corporation. Here’s a round-up of the relevant parts of this sprawling series.
Read more...HSBC’s Money Laundering Nightmare (1): Mossack Fonseca
HSBC’s top brass have “no idea” about Mossack Fonseca. Here’s a primer.
Read more...Bond Star Sir Roger Moore, Three Million Phantom Geese in China, and a New Zealand Financial Services Provider
Bond Star Sir Roger Moore, Three Million Phantom Geese in China, and a New Zealand Financial Services Provider
Read more...GXG: How the Scammers Behind Virgin Gold Mining Corporation Bit Off More Than They Could Chew (VI)
GXG Markets expels dubious broker London Capital (NZ)
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