Let’s start our latest illustration of how easily a reckless, internationally mobile crook can sidestep national regulators, with a helpful observation by Bess Levin at Dealbreaker in May 2010: Let it be known: if you are not interested in having your supervisor (circle all that apply:) send you videos of himself masturbating, texts about the […]
Read more...Why England would be better served by leaving the European Union.
Read more...Even HM Treasury thinks the UK’s anti money laundering framework is a mess
Read more...The spectacle of the US attempting to influence UK domestic politics through having the US Trade Representative Michael Froman issue a threat is pathetic, overreaching, and unconvincing.
Read more...The Billion Dollar Moldova Bank Scam: gateway to the UK’s money laundering mess
Read more...The BBC follows up on the billion-dollar Moldovan bank scam, and Naked Capitalism kicks off a new series on money laundering in the UK
Read more...The fallout from GXG Markets closure begins: Capital Venture Europe files a lawsuit
Read more...Why the three big charges commonly made against Corbyn’s “People’s Quantitative Easing” or PQE, are all wet.
Read more...Corbyn’s victory, the press, the Overton Window, the party, and the future.
Read more...Updating the bizarre story of Questus Global Capital Market, a New Brunswick-incorporated, GXG-listed, New-Zealand-FSP-brokered company of monstrously fraudulent aspect that had apparently ensnared a Malaysian billionaire, various US-based small businesses and retail investors, and a couple of princes from the royal families of Kuwait and Abu Dhabi.
Read more...Yves here. Richard Smith is on the trail of what looks to be his biggest international scam find ever, orders of magnitude larger than the usual below the radar single to low double digit million dollar/pound/euro operation that he has ferreted out in the past. And mind you, even though he focuses on the dubious […]
Read more...Power 8, Sponsor of Everton FC, Fulham FC and RCD Espanyol, is a $250Mn Pyramid Fraud.
Read more...Why is it Groundhog Day? Back in 2011, I wrote a seriously messy blog post about dodgy New Zealand FSPs (Financial Services Providers), their dodgy web sites and people and addresses, and the evidently nonexistent oversight of all of this by the NZ Ministry of Economic Development and the NZ Companies Office. To my surprise, […]
Read more...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
Read more...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.
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