This will be in the Torygraph tomorrow and the Turkish restaurants of London and the South east will be invaded by braying idiots sniffing the corks of the house wine. Could be a superb piece of marketing. A Turkish folksinger conning French vineyards out of wine worth £200 a bottle, then selling it at £60 … A VINTAGE CRIME
GFX Capital markets customers allegedly victims of a possible British Madoff?
focused on the AIG Financial Products division apparently. Always check up on the foreigners, but dont touch the City. Sounds like a motto for the SFO.Semper alios investigare, noli Civitas tangere. Ah the joys of a good education!
Members of los Zetas, a group of ex-soldiers working for drug traffickers and the Gulf Cartel…which sounds awfully like an oil company, but clearly isnt. Mexico following the “Obshak” model, but shifting towards the “Krysha”, here. Not just a Russian phenomenon at all!
Not quite sure what this is about…but the podcast may make it clearer. Journalist discovers male ritual of heavy drinking, drug taking and staying apparently untouched…Could be a number of institutions that I’m far too cool to name, Laurie…
Lot of legal issues here. Two years, three years and under which aegis can legislation be drafted. does such a law require unanimity or majority vote. is it subject to parliamentary scrutiny. Court to declare on some technicalities, but the issue will be back.
Pakistan accepts that at least part of the conspiracy took place on its territory and seeks to prosecute 8 members of Lashkar-e-taiba. Major development in a return to good relations between the two, but also signals important changes in attitudes generally in Pakistan.
Much has been written about the IRA, but much less about the loyalist paramilitaries. This excellent obituary to Roy Magee not only reminds readers of the importance of his life and work, but jogs the memory of the violence from the Protestant side in the Troubles. The Protestant paramilitaries killed many more than the Catholic … OBITUARY FOR REVEREND ROY MAGEE, PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER WHO WORKED HARD TO BRING ULSTER LOYALISTS INTO THE PEACE PROCESS
Marine Analysis and Operation Centre-Narcotics [MAOC-N] coordinates the intelligence and resources. Based in Portugal, commanded by a Briton, it enables UK, France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Ireland and the Netherlands to place liaison officer under one roof to ensure that action can be taken quickly on intelligence. Europol also represented, but kournalist doesnt mention Eurojust.
BBC Moscow correspondent’s powerful article about the reality of Russian politics; not a new Soviet state, just an oligarchy determined to preserve their own wealth and position. No grand conspiracy, just a security apparatus at the beck and call of powerful individuals.
