A company called "Nexus Network" wrote to my personal email wanting long-term advice on "UK Regulatory Dynamics".
I've never heard of "UK Regulatory Dynamics". It's certainly not my field; I'm not sure it's anyone's field.
And Nexus Network looks rather "off".
The email gives Nexus's address as 20-22 Wenlock Road, London, N1 7GU, UK, but the Nexus website says it’s Aldwych House, London WC2A 2AZ. Neither email nor website gave the name of the company, which is (1) weird and (2) an offence.
The company is actually NexusPro Limited, which has the Aldwych House address.
It hasn’t registered under GDPR with Information Commissioner’s Office - again an offence. I don’t know what they're doing with my personal email address - another offence.
For three successive years, NexusPro Limited failed to file its accounts on time with Companies House, and only filed them after Companies House started the striking-off process.
They should be able to afford the £52 data protection fee, because it looks like they made c£200k of profit in 2024.
Its founder is an Ishwar Mahesh. His other two companies failed to file documents with Companies House and were struck off.
I asked Nexus Networks if they could respond to these concerns; I didn't receive a reply. But they did add their company name to the website.
I don't know if this is a complete scam, or merely a shady business, but either way: best avoided.
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Mandelson's firm, General Counsel, covered-up Mandelson's relationship with Epstein.
Here's Global Counsel's CEO and co-founder, preparing to tell the press that Mandelson barely knew Jeffrey Epstein.
Who did he check that line with?
Jeffrey Epstein.
They're responding to this Telegraph story, the previous day, revealing that Epstein planned to meet a British Government Minister in New York on the weekend of 12/13 December 2009.
The Telegraph had picked up on a 2009 court application by Epstein to be released from house arrest so he could meet a senior British government figure in New York.
On 31 March 2010, Lord Mandelson's principal private secretary sent him a note of a meeting between the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Larry Summers, US Treasury Secretary.
Lord Mandelson forwarded it to Jeffrey Epstein five minutes later.
This was a pretty detailed discussion. Epstein responded with suggestions as to how hedge funds should be taxed, and then detailed questions about the drafting of the new US rules ("may" vs "shall).
The next day, Lord Mandelson met Larry Summers himself.
Lord Mandelson's private secretary sent a note of the meeting to him at 1.22pm. Within two minutes, Lord Mandelson forwarded it to Jeffrey Epstein.
Who leaked this Number 10 discussion to Jeffrey Epstein? And are there consequences for the leaker?
It’s an internal discussion re. getting markets moving in the aftermath of the financial crisis. No doubt of great interest to Epstein and his financial market clients.
The name of the leaker is redacted. Could be any of Vadera, Pond, Heywood, Mandelson, or anyone they forwarded the email to.
I guess we'll never know the leaker's identity.
On a completely different subject, here's Peter Mandelson (a few months later) leaking an unrelated policy discussion to Jeffrey Epstein.
New Epstein emails show Peter Mandelson secretly advising JPMorgan’s CEO on how to fight Labour’s 2009 bankers’ bonus tax - even suggesting he “mildly threaten” the Chancellor.
Mandelson was Business Secretary at the time.
A year later, he was seeking work with JPM.
On 9 December 2009, Alistair Darling - then the Chancellor of the Exchequer - announced a one-off 50% tax on bankers’ bonuses.
On 15 December, Jeffrey Epstein asked Lord Mandelson if the tax could be amended so it applied only to cash bonuses (not the, much more valuable, non-cash elements such as share options).
Mandelson said that he was trying hard to amend the tax.