Richard Smith

Looking fraudy/moneylaundery things up & writing them down, formerly for &

[richard brooks @rbrooks45]

Open property ownership information plays major role in tackling corruption. 133% fee increase is a big blow to campaigners and journalists on low budgets who do the work. Far more important than the minimal income this generates for Land Registry. More in @PrivateEyeNews.

[Jay Rayner @jayrayner1]

Merry Christmas everyone

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

Nadhim Zahawi’s lawyer has just been found guilty of misconduct by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal for his attempt to silence me in an email which he said I couldn’t publish or refer to.

[Ian Beckett @ianbeckett]

1/ Blinky (@theFCA) offers pitiful compensation payments to victims of the failed #P2P lending platform #Collateral after it (FCA) allowed false information to be published on it’s (FCA’s) own public register (https://t.co/zwDFoLXZS6). c.c. @ArmitageJim @premnsikka

[Matthew Jury @MattJury_Law]

Andrew Tate: police to seize £2 million in unpaid tax case

https://t.co/l5WBWzSEIv

[Richard Allen RAVAS @TheRising_Moon]

Man from HMRC who appeared in a Panorama documentary called The Billion Pound VAT Scam said he didn't know VAT losses were over a Billon Pounds. https://t.co/8SllnoWMxX

[Richard Allen RAVAS @TheRising_Moon]

"Frankly, you need more ID to take out a library book in the UK than you do to register a company and obtain a VAT number,” said Richard Allen of the group Retailers Against VAT Abuse Schemes (Ravas). The Times Today https://t.co/L727dWBorl

[Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @OCCRP]

NEW: An international money-laundering ring run from Moscow & Dubai has been moving billions in crypto and cash for criminal operations, @NCA_UK says.

84 people have been arrested as part of “Operation Destabilise,” involving police from the U.K., Ireland, the U.S. & France.

[Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator @ContractorCalc]

Intu Solutions were incorporated on 30 September 2016. It took HMRC 8 years to put them on a list. Perhaps they should have used the data they already had, to shut them down by Xmas 2016.

Also - how did they manage to carry on operating since 2016, without filing any accounts? Alarm bells.

[Mark Ames @MarkAmesExiled]

Classic Roy Cohn mob pick, the more compromised the better

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Would be funny if the AI, private equity, and crypto bubbles all popped on Trump’s watch.

[Ian Beckett @ianbeckett]

Blinky’s (@theFCA) #PSR (Payment Services Regulator) gets ‘the bird’ from it’s notorious #Emoney scene as over 80% fail to respond to the #PSR’s survey on readiness for new #APP (push payment) #fraud rules (https://t.co/NHB6H1sOop).

[Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @OCCRP]

NEW: Emails & chats from Swedbank Estonia reveal an office culture where money laundering was openly discussed & even joked about as staff assisted high-flying Russian clients, some of them oligarchs.

The compliance officer who expressed concern? Fired.

https://t.co/ehskAivpmn

[James Hurley @jameshurley]

Pressure builds over Lloyds refusal to commit to publishing long-delayed report into whether it covered up a £1bn lending scandal. Lord Tyrie, Baroness Morgan and a Lloyds staff union call for intervention of MPs
https://t.co/QykfjZaMwG

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

So why did Parliament create laws like this, that protect and facilitate rapists?

It didn't. Parliament voted to remove anonymity for men accused of rape in 1988.

[APPG on Anti-Corruption & Responsible Tax @taxinparliament]

Proud to host the launch of @EndCorruptionUK’s/@jboltonjones report on economic crime enforcement funding. UK agencies recover millions every year yet remain underfunded. Reinvesting fines would boost capacity w/out costing taxpayer.
Read the report here:
https://t.co/L7xdqilz4T

[Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator @ContractorCalc]

Bloke apparently nicks £2.4m from Treasury using dodgy umbrella scheme, then leaves the UK. He’s now banned for 10 years and can’t do something he probably has no intention of doing anyway.

If only HMRC had caught him earlier. https://t.co/0wmyb7JYOP

[Izabella Kaminska @izakaminska]

ooooh.👀👀

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