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From Companies House's strategic intelligence assessment, out today, a sense of the scale of the challenge the agency faces in rooting out fraud & money laundering: Company incorporations in Britain far exceed those anywhere else in the world. gov.uk/government/pub…

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Looks like a random AI slop site based in Illinois, aided by social media, has coaxed hundreds of people on to the main street of Dublin for a Halloween parade that was never happening.

Bloke apparently nicks £2.4m from Treasury using dodgy umbrella scheme, then leaves the UK. He’s now banned for 10 years and can’t do something he probably has no intention of doing anyway. If only HMRC had caught him earlier. gov.uk/government/new…

Proud to host the launch of Spotlight on Corruption’s/James Bolton-Jones report on economic crime enforcement funding. UK agencies recover millions every year yet remain underfunded. Reinvesting fines would boost capacity w/out costing taxpayer. Read the report here: spotlightcorruption.org/wp-content/upl…

So why did Parliament create laws like this, that protect and facilitate rapists? It didn't. Parliament voted to remove anonymity for men accused of rape in 1988.

Pressure builds over Lloyds refusal to commit to publishing long-delayed report into whether it covered up a £1bn lending scandal. Lord Tyrie, Baroness Morgan and a Lloyds staff union call for intervention of MPs thetimes.com/business-money…

NEW: Emails & chats from Swedbank Estonia reveal an office culture where money laundering was openly discussed & even joked about as staff assisted high-flying Russian clients, some of them oligarchs. The compliance officer who expressed concern? Fired. occrp.org/en/feature/mon…

Blinky’s (@theFCA) #PSR (Payment Services Regulator) gets ‘the bird’ from it’s notorious #Emoney scene as over 80% fail to respond to the #PSR’s survey on readiness for new #APP (push payment) #fraud rules (fnlondon.com/articles/hundr…).

Would be funny if the AI, private equity, and crypto bubbles all popped on Trump’s watch.

Classic Roy Cohn mob pick, the more compromised the better

Intu Solutions were incorporated on 30 September 2016. It took HMRC 8 years to put them on a list. Perhaps they should have used the data they already had, to shut them down by Xmas 2016. Also - how did they manage to carry on operating since 2016, without filing any accounts?

NEW: An international money-laundering ring run from Moscow & Dubai has been moving billions in crypto and cash for criminal operations, National Crime Agency (NCA) says. 84 people have been arrested as part of “Operation Destabilise,” involving police from the U.K., Ireland, the U.S. & France.

"Frankly, you need more ID to take out a library book in the UK than you do to register a company and obtain a VAT number,” said Richard Allen of the group Retailers Against VAT Abuse Schemes (Ravas). The Times Today thetimes.com/uk/law/article…

Andrew Tate: police to seize £2 million in unpaid tax case thetimes.com/article/2b6f1a…

Man from HMRC who appeared in a Panorama documentary called The Billion Pound VAT Scam said he didn't know VAT losses were over a Billon Pounds. bbc.co.uk/news/business-…

1/ Blinky (@theFCA) offers pitiful compensation payments to victims of the failed #P2P lending platform #Collateral after it (FCA) allowed false information to be published on it’s (FCA’s) own public register (thetimes.com/business-money…). c.c. Jim Armitage Prem Sikka

Nadhim Zahawi’s lawyer has just been found guilty of misconduct by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal for his attempt to silence me in an email which he said I couldn’t publish or refer to.

Merry Christmas everyone

Open property ownership information plays major role in tackling corruption. 133% fee increase is a big blow to campaigners and journalists on low budgets who do the work. Far more important than the minimal income this generates for Land Registry. More in Private Eye Magazine.