How a Criminal Network Infiltrated the Bank of England

http://www.buzzfeed.com/michaelgillard/sex-lies-and-interest-rates

by sergeant3 • 11 years ago

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rwmj2• 11 years ago

Interestingly the only "news" outlets covering this are Buzzfeed, Russia Today, and David "lizards-run-the-world" Icke. I guess the court order / D-notice must be pretty draconian.

PeterWhittaker2• 11 years ago

If true, an excellent example of why we need better oversight into government operations and into information classification.

bayesianhorse3• 11 years ago

You (GB) need a better government. Or a better voting system and a constitution, while you are at it.

yarrel• 11 years ago

Regime change. Great idea.

(Looks at examples.)

Maybe not.

PeterWhittaker2• 11 years ago

Me? Not GB, CA.

But the point applies, cf C-51.

My statement is true for all democracies, IMHO.

branchless3• 11 years ago

The UK is the home of financial fraud. Why are these guys bothering getting insider information to wash money? Why don't they just wash it through London property using an anonymous company like everyone else?

Also let me tell you the next BoE meeting outcome: keep interest rates at rock-bottom because the UK is in a debt nightmare. How will you wash money with that info?

I don't understand the premise here. The "hanging offence" line is laughable. Not a single person went to jail over 2008. The absence of criminal repercussions for financial crimes is the UK's unique selling point.

The BoE themselves tried to cover up LIBOR fixing. If you want to find criminals it's not hard.

I don't like this article as it supposes that money laundering is at the edge of acceptable behaviour in London. The truth is it's rampant.

“They would discuss whether interest rates were going to rise or fall.”

That must have been boring. "They are going to hold them at the zero bound again or the UK will implode" would have been the answer for five years running.

Where does this rubbish come from? GCHQ misdirection department or a lone looney?

mabbo• 11 years ago

Were interest rates that stable 16 years ago?

rwmj2• 11 years ago

No. I think the phrase is "up and down like a whore's drawers":

http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/boeapps/iadb/Repo.asp

Presumably plenty of scope to make money in (eg) forex if you know about interest rate movements a few days in advance.

branchless3• 11 years ago

Yes good point, there would have been more advantage in knowing it back then. It still makes little sense as an article and the idea that there is low tolerance of financial crime in the UK is laughable.

hadeharian• 11 years ago

Yes...the title is mislabeled. It should be something more like "How a criminal got together with friends at BoE".

keithpeter• 11 years ago

"has been kept tightly under wraps by police chiefs and spies at MI5 for more than 16 years"

Probably not using D notice system for information of that age.

kelvin0• 11 years ago

Banks used to launder money? Shocking :-)

hackuser• 11 years ago

The financial industry's major corruption stories seem to never end. They undermined the world economy and even LIBOR was fixed. Its participants portray themselves as champions of the free market and technical geniuses. How is this the 'free market'? It seems more and more that it's merely theft, and some are better at it than others.

Yet I read about its particpants complaining they are "demonized", and every time regulation or oversight is suggested they are outraged and say it will ruin their hallowed 'free markets'.

cypher_glyph• 11 years ago

They seemed like decent chaps, and decent chaps don't check up on decent chaps to see if they're behaving decently. Furthermore there's no point: if they're honest, it's a waste of time - and if they're not honest you don't find out about it until it's too late anyway.

How a Criminal Network Infiltrated the Bank of England

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