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16 Mar, 5 tweets, 4 min read
NatWest faces criminal action over money laundering offences. FCA launches criminal action against the former RBS over allegations it failed to detect suspicious activity by a customer who deposited £264 million in cash. via @tomwilson1983 @iainwithers reuters.com/article/us-nat…
Money laundering charges: The FCA alleges NatWest allowed “increasingly large cash deposits” to be paid into a UK-based customer's accounts between November 2011 and October 2016. It's alleged £365m was paid in, including £264m in cash. via @JuliaKollewe theguardian.com/business/2021/…
Prem Sikka suggests the criminal charges against RBS/NatWest could be a ploy to divert attention from FCA's failures, including the fact its former CEO presided over a whitewash of RBS/NatWest GRG after failing to disclose a major conflict-of-interest.
NatWest criminal charges for money-laundering relate to £264 million deposited in cash by Bradford-based gold dealer Fowler Oldfield, which went bust in 2016 following a series of police probes. By @jonny_browning @spampistefania @aoifewhite101 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The £365m money-laundering den behind the NatWest scandal: a century-old gold dealer in... Bradford. When handling funds from #FowlerOldfield, the FCA alleges NatWest failed to properly scrutinise "increasingly large cash deposits". via @DMailMattO thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/…

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18 Mar
. @BaronessKramer: "We have to put iron in the spine of the FCA. Whistleblowers are a citizens army that demand respect. They should be protected and not be the victims of retaliation. What they currently go through is frankly shocking". Great session of @TransparencyTF Image
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17 Mar
Julie Burchill forced to drop new publisher of her book 'Welcome to the Woke Trials' after its Edinburgh-based owner Tabatha Stirling was outed as a supporter of white nationalist group, Patriotic Alternative theguardian.com/books/2021/mar…
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A disturbing listen. Tabatha Stirling, director of Edinburgh-based @StirlingPublish seeks to persuade far-right group Patriotic Alternative of her white supremacist credentials. Until today Stirling was @BoozeAndFagz's publisher.
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5 Feb
You've simply got to watch this meeting of #Handforth Parish Council planning committee. Kudos to Jackie Weaver for not losing her cool in the face of astonishing rudeness. Who needs Netflix?
Handforth Parish Council owes it's unlikely fame to teenager Shaan, a 17-year-old from London, who found the @zoom_us meeting footage, and 16-year-old Janine Mason, from Stoke-on-Trent, who launched it onto the world stage. cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-c…
The person who unearthed the extraordinary Handforth Parish Council zoom meeting footage is on Twitter - as @shaanthepenguin!
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That's at least 20 of these inane, cut-and-paste, identical, professions of undying love for Boris Johnson in the past hour, @TwitterSupport. ImageImage
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23 Jan
Handy interactive timeline showing all the times "Covid sceptics" Sunetra Gupta, Carl Heneghan, Karol Sikora, Mike Yeadon, Toby Young, Alison Pearson and Julia Hartley Brewer have been utterly wrong about #COVIDー19

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The biggest worry about BBC chair Richard Sharp isn't necessarily the £400,000 he's give to the Tories. It's the £35,000 he's given to Quilliam, a "thinktank" loved by the transatlantic super-rich but distrusted by almost every British Muslim @OborneTweets middleeasteye.net/opinion/richar…
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