White collar crime of the century!

[Chris F]

This a fascinating read. A $60 billion fraud of European states and the key guy to be prosecuted uses his (allegedly ill gotten) gains to buy dairy farms in New Zealand.

He can’t be all bad!

It May Be the Biggest Tax Heist Ever. And Europe Wants Justice. (Published 2020)

Stock traders are accused of siphoning $60 billion from state coffers, in a scheme that one called “the devil’s machine.” Germany is the first country to try to get its money back.

www.nytimes.com

It May Be the Biggest Tax Heist Ever. And Europe Wants Justice.
Stock traders are accused of siphoning $60 billion from state coffers, in a scheme that one called “the devil’s machine.” Germany is the first country to try to get its money back.

 

[teslacoils]

Lawyers, accountants, bankers who swindle the State should have their noses slit, ears cut off, and branded as traitors.

 

[Steevo]

Lawyers, accountants, bankers who swindle the State should have their noses slit, ears cut off, and branded as traitors.

Don't forget politicians!

 

[David.]

Lawyers, accountants, bankers who swindle the State should have their noses slit, ears cut off, and branded as traitors.

And theyre legges shall be twergled and stretched five foot three..

 

[teslacoils]

Given previous stats on the lack of savings of many families, these f**kers should be thrown to the mob.

 

[PSQ]

"He remembered looking down from his office on the 32nd floor of a Frankfurt skyscraper and pitying the pedestrians."
“That was the normal world to which we no longer belonged,” he told the reporters. “We looked out the window from up there, and we thought, ‘We’re the cleverest of all, geniuses, and you’re all stupid.’”

 

[Chris F]

"He remembered looking down from his office on the 32nd floor of a Frankfurt skyscraper and pitying the pedestrians."
“That was the normal world to which we no longer belonged,” he told the reporters. “We looked out the window from up there, and we thought, ‘We’re the cleverest of all, geniuses, and you’re all stupid.’”

They do sound like modest chaps.

 

[Muck Spreader]

And doesn't Boris see the future as a further deregulated City for the crooks and fat cats thrive in. Personally I wouldn't even give them the benefit of a trial.

 

[pycoed]

And doesn't Boris see the future as a further deregulated City for the crooks and fat cats thrive in. Personally I wouldn't even give them the benefit of a trial.

Is there ANY thread you don't try to turn into a criticism of Brexit/Boris? Are you really the DG of the BBC by any chance?

 

[spin cycle]

fekkin ell

 

[graham99]

Don't forget politicians!

kiwi land elected a banker , who worked in the same bank as the as talked about in story .
and the timing is spot on as well .

 

[Canada Farmer]

kiwi land elected a banker , who worked in the same bank as the as talked about in story .
and the timing is spot on as well .

Any fact with regard that they worked together, or merely guilty of association by working at the same establishment?
Bit like saying the UN is useless ,therefore any kiwi land politician who goes the work at the UN (past or future) must be equally useless too, eh??

 

[Yale]

No different to benefit fraud,just on a way massive scale.

Where there’s a scheme,there’s a schemer!

 

[Muck Spreader]

Is there ANY thread you don't try to turn into a criticism of Brexit/Boris? Are you really the DG of the BBC by any chance?

Governments are supposed to protect us from these people, not make it easier for them to rob us.