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| Thursday 15 March 2007 / Webmaster |
| Police raids follow Invaro's collapse |
on 01 Apr 2007 by paul Lashmar  |
| The Independent on Sunday 01 April 2007 Business section |
| The Independent on Sunday, Business section01 April 2007 by Paul LashmarThe Serious Fraud Office has begun a criminal investigation into the collapse of the Invaro Group, once Britain's largest independent litigation funder. Detectives working with the SFO have launched a series of dawn raids at three addresses in the north of England linked to the personal injury claims company. Liverpool-based [read more] |
| A year on, Britain's FBI has little to celebrate |
| The Guardian Saturday March 31 2007. |
| on 31 Mar 2007 by Paul Lashmar |
| Saturday March 31, 2007• Dissatisfaction rife within serious crime agency• Chief admits: 'We have housekeeping problems' The head of the UK's equivalent of the FBI has admitted that his agency has yet to make a significant impact, and that it has been bedevilled by organisational problems since its launch. Sir Stephen Lander, who runs the Serious and Organised Crime Agency [read more] |
| Big Four accountants accused of 'legitimising' tax havens |
| Big Four |
| on 04 Mar 2007 by Paul Lashmar |
| Independent on Sunday, Business sectionby Paul Lashmar Published: 04 March 2007 The Big Four accountancy firms have been criticised for "legitimising" the use of offshore tax havens and for not taking a strong enough lead in international tax compliance. The claims are made in a new report by the Tax Justice Network. http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article2326080.ece "The extensive presence in tax havens of the Big Four accountancy [read more] |
| Nabbed! Investigators turn tables on criminals by seizing £100m |
| on 04 Mar 2007 by Paul Lashmar |
| Once they provided a tidy little nest egg on exit from jail. Now the villains' hoards are up for grabs by the authorities. Independent on Sunday By Paul Lashmar Crime pays: every villain used to know that. Get banged up and you could still look forward to digging up the booty one day and living the high life, big house, [read more] |
| Wanted: The £200m crime lord |
| on 04 Mar 2007 by Paul Lashmar |
| Independent on Sunday 04 March 2007 |
| He was 'suave and engaging', and made a fortune from white-collar crime. And now the record-breaking Mr Big seems to have escaped justice. Paul Lashmar reportsCrime boss Asad Chohan did things on a grand scale. As head of one of the UK's biggest crime empires, he generated more than £200m. And on Tuesday, his empire demolished, he faces the biggest [read more] |
| Russian agents, the merchant of death and the London connection |
| on 06 Dec 2006 by Paul Lashmar |
| 6th Dec 2006by PAUL LASHMAR and ROBERT MENDICK TWO London companies are being investigated over an international arms-smuggling racket linked to the Russian intelligence agency at the centre of the radiation assassination mystery. US investigators have accused the firms of helping Russian arms dealers obtain equipment that paramilitaries could use around the globe. According to US court documents obtained by [read more] |
| Offshore havens 'declare war' on honest taxpayers |
| on 24 Sep 2006 by Paul Lashmar |
| Independent on Sunday |
| Business SectionBy Paul Lashmar Published: 24 September 2006 The US Senate has accused the Isle of Man, the Cayman Islands and other offshore havens of facilitating tax evasion that costs other countries billions of pounds every year. The accusations are made in a report by Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He said: "I believe the findings are explosive: the [read more] |
| Tax evasion: campaigners claim watchdog is 'ignoring' them |
| on 17 Sep 2006 by Paul Lashmar |
| Independent on Sunday |
| Charities and NGOs berate accounting standard-setters over lack of transparency in multinationals' reports By Paul Lashmar Published: 17 September 2006 The Publish What You Pay (PWYP) alliance of campaign groups has hit out at the body that sets international accounting standards in a battle for greater transparency in the way multinationals report. PWYP is a coalition of more than 300 charities, non-governmental organisations [read more] |
| Heroin influx feared as drug squads reform |
| on 14 Nov 2005 by Paul Lashmar |
| · Customs officers claim investigations scaled back · No new cases in run-up to launch of FBI-style agencyPaul Lashmar and Rosie CowanMonday November 14, 2005 Guardian Investigations into drug trafficking are being drastically scaled back in the run-up to the launch of a crime fighting agency next April, according to senior Customs sources. They claim that Customs' six heroin-targeting squads [read more] |
| IT'S ALL FOR YOUR OWN GOOD |
| on 25 Sep 2004 by Paul Lashmar |
| Drink too much? Eat the wrong foods? By 2020, no aspect of your life will be safe from prying eyes, or from interfering official nannies. Paul Lashmar reports: 'The most likely threat to liberty in 2020 will not be political control but overweening nannyism' The Guardian25/09/2004You are at work. The morning coffee break has occasioned a need to visit the [read more] |
