City of London

The City in question is the City of London, one of the leading finance operations in the world. It is a place where money moves in a big way; well over $1 trillion per day. The City must be doing something right. That does not mean there is no crime, no collusion, no loading of the dice, no arranging the goal posts to make sure the little people lose. There is. The City prospers mightily. The City has power. The City is a Den of Iniquity. Thus quoth - see Drinking In The Last Chance Saloon - My Hopes and Fear for the Banking Commission's Recommendations!

Serious Fraud Office
Was set up to deal with City crime, big time fraud. It failed. It is failing. It is on the skids.

Politicians Stop Police Investigating The City Of London
Money talks. City men go to the same schools as politicians. Collusion? You betcha.

Rowan's Blogspot
Mr. Bosworth-Davies was a policeman dealing with fraud. Now he talks about just how bad it is.

Why It is Essential That Criminal Bankers Are Prosecuted
Mr. Bosworth-Davies goes for it again.

Guardian Whines About The Rich - Pot Calls Kettle Black [ 10 June 2013 ]
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Attempts by the Barclay brothers, owners of the Daily Telegraph, to obtain a £1bn VAT windfall from the British taxpayer, are leading to criticism of the way their offshore commercial empire is structured.

The much-delayed broadcast of an investigation by the BBC's Panorama programme into the Barclays' tax affairs focuses on the Ritz hotel, another of their assets. The hotel in London has paid no corporation tax for the past 17 years by legally claiming reliefs.

Yet the Barclays are engaged in a lengthy legal battle to obtain a £1bn VAT refund. They claim they are entitled to compound interest on a tax rebate stretching back 30 years, on behalf of the Littlewoods catalogue group which they took over in 2002.

The original refund of £204m has long been paid to them, along with a cheque for £268m in simple interest. But the twins have taken their claim for a huge extra payoff as far as the European court of justice.
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The Guardian whines about off shore tax arrangements but keeps quiet about its own ingenious arrangements.

City of London ex Wiki
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London is the world's greatest foreign exchange market, with much of the trade conducted in the City of London. Of the $3.98 trillion daily global turnover, as measured in 2009, trading in London accounted for around $1.85 trillion, or 36.7% of the total.^[7] The Pound Sterling, the currency of the United Kingdom, is globally the fourth most traded currency and the third most held reserve currency.

Since 1991 Canary Wharf, a few miles east of the City in Tower Hamlets, has become another centre for London's financial services industry which houses many banks and other institutions formerly located in the Square Mile. Although growth has continued in both locations, and there have been relocations in both directions, the Corporation has come to realise that its planning policies may have been causing financial firms to choose Canary Wharf as a location.
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Bigger than New York, bigger than Frankfurt! Good news for England.

City Of London Fat Cats Stop Police Investigation [ 16 December 2012 ]
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VIDEO: Politicians Stop the Police Investigating the City of London

A short two-minute coverage on the City of London by the B.B.C. However, where is the B.B.C.’s in-depth focus on the subject? Why have they simply glossed the issue? In titling the video “The City: A State within a State” one would consider the concept of an entity being outside of the everyday machinations of the State to be worthy of a Panorama investigation http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-15602906

Compare and contrast this with the B.B.C.’s nominal effort: The City of London Corporation: the state within a state
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Perhaps the right point to take is that the law is a working tool used by politicians to run things. At least 90% of Acts passed in the last hundred years are about oppressing people; they have nothing to do with justice. Real crime, which is to say murder, rape, robbery, GBH etcetera has been illegal since Elizabeth I of England, if not earlier. For example Money Laundering is a crime invented to make it easier for governments to tax us. It is never prosecuted when the perpetrators are MI6, the CIA or Mossad.