Index of Articles
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| Thursday 15 March 2007 / Webmaster |
| MI6 role in Cayman investigation exposed as Austin Powers farce |
on 19 Oct 2009 by Paul Lashmar  |
| Paul LashmarSaturday January 18, 2003The call from an MI6 controller in London to his top agent on the small island was electrifying: "Destroy everything that connects you to us!" Brian Gibbs unlocked his filing cabinet and reached for the shredder. But events that followed the dramatic phone call last July to Grand Cayman have since proved to be more like [read more] |
| Mobile phone scam costs VAT billions: |
| Customs accused of overreaction in bid to combat swindle based in Stoke |
| on 19 Oct 2009 by Paul Lashmar |
| Mobile phone scam costs VAT billions: Customs accused of overreaction in bid to combat swindle based in StokeSaturday 17 August 2002by James Oliver and Paul LashmarStoke-on-Trent seems an unlikely rival to London or Manchester as a home of organised crime. But it is the epicentre of an enterprising wave of fraud that customs sources say may have already cost [read more] |
| On the brink of war - Weapons of mass destruction - and links to al-Qa'ida |
| on 19 Oct 2009 by Paul Lashmar |
| What does the ‘menace’ posed by Iraq really add up to? Ordinary Americans think Bin Laden and Saddam are the same man.Independent on Sunday02/02/2003by Paul Lashmar and Raymond Whitaker When did the "war against terror" become a campaign against Saddam Hussein rather than Osama bin Laden? Less than a month after the September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre [read more] |
| Trial & terror: On 7/7 anniversary, Jeep passenger appears in court over bomb attacks |
| on 08 Jul 2009 by Paul Lashmar |
| Bilal Abdulla faced charges yesterday of conspiracy to cause explosions in London and Glasgow last week. The amateur nature of the attacks is allowing MI5 to 'roll up' the network quickly and reveal new leads on al-Qa'ida sympathisers still at large in Britain. By Raymond Whitaker and Paul Lashmar Published: 08 July 2007 http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article2745133.eceLondon yesterday summed up the bizarre mixture [read more] |
| Sub prime – a crisis in journalism? |
| on 18 Jul 2008 by Paul Lashmar |
| By Paul Lashmar http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/index.asp?navcode=9Former BBC economics editor Evan Davis said at the Radio Festival in Glasgow earlier this month that journalists could have done more to warn the public about the credit crunch that has triggered the current housing price crash.“I do ask whether we did our best to warn people of impending problems during the upswing of the [economic] [read more] |
| Britain's FBI 'is a dismal failure' |
| on 18 May 2008 by Paul Lashmar |
| By Paul LashmarBritain's answer to the FBI, the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca), has been branded a disaster by the law enforcement chief whose proposals in 2003 led to its creation.Terry Byrne, former director-general for law enforcement at Customs & Excise, said the agency was failing and its performance was "dismal". He added: "The agency is claiming to have seized [read more] |
| Mann ready to name names in exchange for early release |
| on 16 Mar 2008 by Paul Lashmar |
| Former SAS officer admits coup plot but his pact with lawyers rests on giving Equatorial Guinea hard evidence against organisers By Paul Lashmar The jailed mercenary Simon Mann has cut a deal with prosecutors in Equatorial Guinea, and will be released early if he provides hard evidence against the organisers and funders of a failed 2004 coup plot, according to sources [read more] |
| The great class A drugs sale – how prices have tumbled under Labour |
| on 09 Mar 2008 by Paul Lashmar |
| Street prices for class A drugs have halved since Labour came to power, dropping almost every year since 1997, government figures confirm. Newly released statistics show that heroin cost as little as £40 a gram in 2007, just over half the price it was 10 years ago. Cocaine was £45 a gram, down from £71. The shadow home affairs minister, [read more] |
| Government in Crisis (I): Victory to the traffickers: Heroin and cocaine prices on the street are at record lows as seizures plummet |
| on 25 Nov 2007 by Paul Lashmar |
| The Serious Organised Crime Agency was to be Tony Blair's FBI, and it took over as the lead agency in the battle against ever more sophisticated drug cartels last year. Unpublished figures demonstrate that – so far – it is losing. Paul Lashmar investigates Hard drug seizures at the nation's borders have plummeted, leaving heroin and cocaine freely and [read more] |
| Fraudster told to hand back £41m or spend eight more years in jail |
| on 14 Nov 2007 by Paul Lashmar |
| by Simon Bowers, Paul Lashmar and Duncan Campbell The Guardian (London) Gerald Smith, who is serving eight years in prison for a shell company embezzlement, has been ordered to hand back £41m of stolen proceeds or face a further eight years behind bars. He has 12 months to find the cash - the largest criminal confiscation order ever handed down [read more] |
