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All these companies were formed today, all have Chinese directors and all use SIC code 46420 - Wholesale of clothing and footwear It's worth five minutes of your time just looking at some of the most amazing coincidences contained within.

I like coming up with snappy epigrams, so I am going to call this "co-ordinated ubiquity". 🤣

Possibly my favourite company name of 2024 (so far).

Whole streets are targeted by organised groups to register "ghost" companies. Like Hamilton Street, Worksop. Since September 2023, 133 companies have been registered to virtually every house in the street. And here they are:

I think Jinxiang Wu has been on both a physical and emotional journey over the last four weeks. 🤣

Having had the privilege of working with some of the best investigative journalists in the world, and seeing first hand the level of fact checking that their stories are subjected to before publication, I can’t understand how this could have been published “mistakenly”. 😂

With a forthcoming new requirement which makes it mandatory for UK payment service providers (PSPs) to reimburse the victims of some types of fraud, we look at the rules and how they are likely to play out. buzzsprout.com/242645/14961443

So far today, 4,801 companies have been incorporated in the UK (as at 17:15). Unbelievably, 647 of them have been incorporated by individuals declaring Chinese nationality. 13.5% of the total. By far the highest we have ever seen.

In this episode we explore some of the many different ways in which corporate entities can be used to engage in financial crime – although, as far as we are aware, they aren’t much use in removing stones from horse’s hooves. buzzsprout.com/242645/15189776

The scandalous misuse of company incorporations in two pictures. 1. Lingfield Court - retirement housing, 32 flats plus a resident warden 2. Chinese companies registered to Lingfield Court since 7 June 2024 - 37 so far at virtually every flat (including the wardens).

Hot spots and intelligence 2 In this second episode we look more broadly at the genesis of intelligence led policing, how it works and how compelling it is to draw parallels with our world of anti-financial crime. buzzsprout.com/242645/15592614

There is probably a universe out there, where this combination of company name, company address and SIC code makes sense, but I don't think we're currently living in it. 😂

In this episode we turn our attention to the tricky subject of outsourcing. We were going to get someone else to record it for us, but we couldn't find any suitable candidates. :) buzzsprout.com/242645/15727298