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(my emphasis)In the Incident Room, one local officer, Rachel Hart told me that many callers were distraught, others angry that complaints at the time had not been heeded.
'Not dealt with'
"They find it difficult to trust us," she said, "but I make it clear to them that this time we are taking any allegations very seriously."
Lenny Harper, who recalls similar inquiries in both the UK and Northern Ireland, says he believes these alleged offences span at least three decades.
The allegations range "from pretty severe physical and mental abuse right through to the most serious sexual crimes that you can imagine", he said.
dickdecent wrote:Doesn't anyone else feel that this case is potentially bigger than say, the Franklin case, for exposing VERY high connections - Masonic and para-political/world bank.
The almost-too-obvious in retrospect role of The Islands' [all of them] multi-functioning as the elite playground, the tax haven friend of the launderer, the filthy Masonic HQ of depravity and slaughter of innocents.
The direct connections with Islington and Dorset.. via Islington to the Welsh cover-up.. via there to Kincora, and on to Dunblane and the Belgium\Dutroux [failed] cover up... Like a fucking circle of hell for those kids.
There were many rumours about who might have carried out the burglary. The IRA, the Animal Liberation Front, unspecified drug dealers and even MI5 were mentioned. There was also a persistent set of rumours about a gay network of semi-criminal elements who were alleged to have good police and legal contacts. Nobody has yet been charged with the crime, though some journalists who have covered the story in Scotland have come to believe that the identity of the burglar, said to be a police informer, is known to the police, but that the police fear he might embarrass the force in court.
dickdecent wrote:For CIA read MI 5/6
For HellFire/Grovers read High ranking Masons
For Bohemian Grove read Channel Islands
dickdecent wrote:I'm very afraid the fix is already in with our Lenny... he knows what he has to do... APPEAR to be open and honest while steering the press away from the cover up. Talk a lot about the past, and perps who are dead, and HIDE the true extent of the cancer. After all it's pretty obvious who's who...
Sadly, I was wrong about Lenny Harper though - there just can't be any direct link to Kincora.
I definitely agree that this could be a case of extraordinary magnitude, much bigger than it already seems as yet another example of widespread 'historic' sexual abuse in children's homes.
The High Court has ruled that the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) acted unlawfully by dropping a corruption inquiry into a £43bn Saudi arms deal.
In a hard-hitting ruling, two High Court judges described the SFO's decision as an "outrage".
Defence firm BAE was accused of making illegal payments to Saudi officials to secure contracts, but the firm maintains that it acted lawfully.
The SFO said national security would have been undermined by the inquiry.
The judges in London did not rule that the case would be reopened, but have said they would listen to further arguments.
Following the sale of a package of UK arms to Qatar in 1996, BAE paid a £7 million "commission" into three Jersey trust funds under the control of Qatar's Foreign Minister. A criminal investigation began in Jersey in 2000 but ended in 2002 on "public interest" grounds. The Qatari Foreign Minister denied any wrongdoing but agreed to pay Jersey £6m for "perceived damage".
Most of these offshore centres are tiny pin-pricks in an atlas, like Jersey or the Bahamas, the British Virgin Islands or Labuan in Malaysia - though Luxembourg, Switzerland and even offshore aspects of London, New York and Dublin ought to be included as well. But these tiny places now host a staggering amount of the world's wealth.
Because of the secrecy that surrounds them we can't know how much. The most recent estimate is around $6 trillion, approximately the annual world trade in goods and services, or about one-third of all global wealth.
A Home Office report on the Channel Islands and Isle of Man, commissioned from a retired Treasury official, Andrew Edwards, is expected next week (the article dates from 1998). Edwards lists a series of abuses, including Jersey's failure to help foreign authorities investigate tax evasion and other frauds, and the "Sark Lark", whereby islanders are paid to be bogus directors of foreign companies.
One inhabitant of Sark was found to be on the board of as many as 2,400 companies, most of which he knew almost nothing about. Another was a nominee director of the Mil-Tec Corporation, registered in the Isle of Man, which was involved in supplying arms to the Rwandan Hutu militias at the time of the 1994 genocide.
Among Edwards' recommendations are that the 100,000 offshore companies registered on the Channel Isles should be forced to file proper accounts and tell island regulators who owns them. But he stops short of requiring that they reveal the identity of directors publicly, fearing that this would turn business away to other jurisdictions.
dickdecent wrote:It's not sad really tho'! It's at least hope that Len might have some integrity. I can't see it myself, as I mentioned before I feel sure that the fix is VERY well in place... what will be REALLY sad is when you or I or another user DOES find specific Masonic links to Lennie.
dickdecent wrote:Some good research off you suggesting that he maybe was NOT part of Kincora is great news to me.
This point is what I'm not seeing many people get at the moment... This case is like a big picture window that looks directly down into the proverbial rabbit hole for me...
A window big enough so that one can see a LONG way in... If you weigh in the islands' history and it's regular visits by royal, banking, Masonic and other Dignitaries, spooks, crooks and Occultists... [their NAMES are avilable as such at the moment] and visualise what Jersey was to them, there is probably no more accurate or chilling insight into elite/occult sexuality and depravity, and the CONNECTION it has with the outside/alphbet agencies who direct and help to perpetrate it.
blanc wrote:We seem to think along the same lines AOLeg, that high level arms dealing and high level paedo abuse are connected I mean. I posted a thread about al yam decision yesterday, then listened to the bbc news on the radio and noticed that the edge is being chipped off the implications of the high court decision with raking out an expert who said in his opinion it would be unlikely that the sfo would re-open the investigation.
(My emphasis)Backstory
BAE Systems, formerly British Aerospace, is one of the world's biggest arms companies, with a turnover of £15bn, but has repeatedly been the subject of corruption allegations. A secret £7m payment from BAE to the foreign minister of Qatar was discovered in a Jersey account, after a 1996 arms sale to the state. Investigations were dropped after the minister paid £6m to the Jersey authorities. In 2003 a whistleblower alleged that a £60m slush fund was being used by BAE to provide lavish holidays, luxury cars and other benefits to the head of procurement for the Saudi air force. Last year, it was alleged in Chile that BAE had paid more than £1m to intermediaries linked to ex-president Pinochet in return for arms deals.
(My emphasis)The Serious Fraud Office has begun a new investigation into British links with one of the biggest corruption inquiries in Africa. UK firms won huge contracts from the Kenyan governments of presidents Daniel arap Moi and Mwai Kibaki, but anti-corruption investigators have discovered that many were fictitious and amounted to state-sponsored looting.
The SFO inquiry is concentrating on the movement of millions of pounds into accounts in the tax havens of Guernsey and Jersey controlled by Andrew MacGill, a 64-year-old arms dealer from Fife.
The inquiry into the Anglo Leasing scandal was welcomed last week by the Kenyan high commissioner, Joseph Muchemi.
Biggest British Fraud
Posted by Carlos Cortiglia at 09:33 on 20 Feb 2008
The House of Commons witnessed yesterday the biggest financial fraud in British history when it was discovered that most of the assets of the bankrupt Northern Rock had already been taken by a company called Granite based in Jersey.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer was repeatedly asked to specify which assets the Bank of England was buying and no answer was forthcoming. Things do not stop there. Even after nationalisation, Granite is legally entitled to milk money from the Bank of England without any accountability.
The monies always signed up for Northern Rock are three times the size of the entire military budget, monies paid for a company whose remaining portfolio of loans and mortgages are merely cases of repossessions.
Northern Rock stonewalls Down's charity
05 December 2007
Beleaguered bank Northern Rock is being investigated by the Charity Commission, after being accused of exploiting a Down's syndrome charity to make money for itself.
A Jersey-based offshore trust called Granite was supposed to have been set up by the bank to generate money, some of which would be donated to a small charity for people with Down's syndrome. Yet when approached by the Guardian, Newcastle-based charity Down's syndrome North East (DSNE) announced that it had never received a penny from the trust and nor had it been informed it was a beneficiary. Asked by the newspaper for an explanation, Northern Rock apologised and said it was merely an "oversight".
The bank said the charity might receive a donation in the future if its trust was ever wound up. Granite was set up in December 2000 and raised £71 billion of funds for the bank on the pretext of being for charitable purposes.
The Charity Commission said yesterday it would "get to the bottom" of the matter, while Jim Cousins, Labour MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central, said: "It is completely unforgivable that when the charity was nominated as a potential beneficiary, somebody didn't go to them explaining the whole situation, and reassuring them that the charity was not at risk in some way."
DSNE operates from a semi-detached house in near Gosforth where Northern Rock is developing its new £35 million headquarters and in the last financial year it had an income of just £85,997."
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