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Dec 20 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
@ArmitageJim @premnsikka 1/ #TSB Bank fined by UK regulator (@TheFCA) £48m over ‘serious failings’ in IT platform meltdown (theguardian.com/business/2022/…). TSB was acquired by Spain's #BancoSabadell in 2015 + shunted on to the infamous ‘Sabadell Proteo’ spawned IT platform.
2/ “We have created a more digital, agile & flexible TSB,” said Paul Pester, CEO of TSB, at the unveiling of the bank’s new technology platform, Proteo4UK in 2017 (fintechfutures.com/2017/12/tsb-un…). However, switchover in April 2018 resulted in the loss of internet & mobile banking …
3/ services for many customers for > a week. Some customers reported seeing detailed account information of other customers, including balances of accounts other than their own. Paul Pester, then chief executive, stated that TSB was "on its knees"(bbc.co.uk/news/business-… AND …
4/4 bbc.co.uk/news/business-…). Weeks of chaos ensued. A former TSB board member was quoted by the BBC as saying "human error, pride & software failure" led to TSB's "dreadful" response. On 4 September 2018, Pester resigned.

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Dec 22
@retheauditors @premnsikka 1/ UK audit regulator #FRC fines #Deloitte £1.25m (£906k) c/w ‘severe reprimand’ over building materials distributor #SIGplc #audit failures. Deloitte’s audit partner Simon Manning fined £50k (£36k) - frc.org.uk/news/december-…. Image
2/ Unsurprisingly for this type of business the ‘old chestnuts’ of y/end cash & supplier rebates reared their heads. A whistleblower reportedly ‘identified issues’ at its UK insulation & interiors subsidiary: ‘SIG Distribution’. KMPG were reportedly brought in to investigate.
3/ In 2018 SIG announced “With support from KPMG, the group has completed a review of financial reporting controls at SIG Distribution, which identified no further material accounting cause for concern” + “a number of employees are leaving the business” (insider.co.uk/company-result…).
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Dec 22
@ArmitageJim @premnsikka 1/ ‘Key US law enforcement aide being investigated for allegedly extorting former Venezuelan officials’. But questions hang over Spain’s allegations that Martin Rodil exploited ties to US officials (icij.org/inside-icij/20…).
2/2 Getting on for a decade ago Bloomberg published a rip-roaring tale of US resident Venezuelan emigre chauffeur Martin Rodil, also working at the IMF as a data entry clerk entering #MoneyLaundering data - he allegedly became a US ‘deep state’/Israeli intelligence ‘middleman’. ImageImageImageImage
Addendum 1/2 : for those interested in the mechanics of the alleged laundromat, the US indictment (USA v Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad) gives quite a bit of detail including the ‘double trouble’ of Swiss/Dubai/London banks & Nevis passports (drive.google.com/file/d/14Q6NsU….
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Aug 11
@ArmitageJim @premnsikka - 1/ A corrupt solicitor: ‘Timothy Schools’, who named his firm ‘ATM’ because it was "a cash machine" for litigation awards has been convicted of a notorious #fraud - the £120m #Axiom Legal Financing Fund “Axiom”. Axiom was launched in 2009 as an …
2/ offshore fund (+ its associated ‘fund manager’ - Tangerine Investment Management’ - “#Tangerine”), purportedly providing litigation finance to small UK solicitors firms for low value high volume claims. It was peddled to the UK public & expats widely by a large web of …
3/ @theFCA made men/women & their associated unauthorised cold calling cowboys in the FCA’s SIPPshittery, @TPRgovuk’s pension liberation scams + allegedly ‘wrapped’ (in purportedly ‘insurance bonds’/SIPPs) by the FCA’s ‘Big Fish’ & peddled particularly to older …
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Aug 9
#CryptoCrap - 1/ Portugal’s biggest banks are shutting down banking facilities for crypto exchanges, operating in what’s become a crypto ‘Wild West’, driven by Portugal’s(until 3 months ago) tax free status for crypto & ‘few questions asked’ use in property/other major purchases. Image
2/ (euronews.com/next/2022/05/1…). It’s rumoured enormous volumes of crypto of Ukrainian/Russian origin have passed through Portuguese crypto ops & it’s banking system. Portugal’s former ‘tax free’ crypto-crappery & lax #MoneyLaundering rules have attracted in particular …
3/ satellite Ukrainian crypto, support, & software ops - some with a dubious pedigree. Even crypto aficionados from neighboring Spain, which shares a similar climate, started crossing the border into Portugal after their government last year made it mandatory for …
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Aug 8
@ArmitageJim @premnsikka 1/ UK’s government investment fund (#FutureFund) largely backed ‘zombie businesses’ (ft.com/content/230fa1…). The #FutureFund was managed by the unaccountable fat-cats at the #BritishBusinessBank (aka British Bank of Wank) “BBB”, whose baboonery … Image
2/ reportedly even extended to forgetting to remove parts of FOI’d documents they had decided to redact before having to publish. Lord Agnew recently railed against the COVID pandemic support scheme baboonery from the toddlers at the Treasury & it’s appendage the BBB, …
3/ extending his concern to the opaqueness surrounding the record of the two dozen ‘lenders’ doling out tax payer money as govt. COVID loan support - many, it’s alleged, doing little to no due diligence. Meanwhile, the BBB’s statutory accounts show they ‘mark their own work’ …
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Aug 7
@ArmitageJim @premnsikka 1/ David Ames, patriarch of the Ames clan was convicted of #fraud on Wednesday i.r.o. the infamous £226m ‘#HarlequinProperty’ Caribbean property scam, peddled through @TheFCA’s SIPPshittery & @TPRgovuk’s pension liberation scams (ftadviser.com/regulation/202…).
2/ A hotspot of Harlequin Property scam peddling was the #LCF crews manor, with #LCF’s Spencer Golding’s alleged boiler room including a major Harlequin op ( AND ) + was allegedly linked to #LCF crew-mate & ICAEW man …
3/ Michael Peacock ( AND ). A long term associate of Spencer Golding was #LCF/#MJSCapital’s (+ Masonic mover & shaker) John Russell-Murphy “JRM”. When Spencer Golding’s alleged boiler room was reportedly credit-card blacklisted …
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