Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] was doing and had probably been asked to run by a third party. Sedgemore denounced Betts and his actions in a House of Commons debate on electoral fraud on 21 May 1997.1 3 But who asked Betts to run? It looked like an inside job: but was it just another manifestation of chaotic Hackney […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] wealth by the pastors who advocated the doctrine. They generally extracted their personal wealth from their congregations by the exploitation of the crudest superstition and by straightforward fraud. And, while the superstition might look back to the Middle Ages, the methods used to exploit it were very up to date – with the various […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
[PDF file]: […] joint MI5/MI6 operation against Asil Nadir. A TurkishCypriot businessman, Nadir had built up a large business empire, Polly Peck International, in the UK before being charged with fraud. He fled the UK and in 1993 was in the Turkish part of Cyprus which was beyond the reach of formal international law.3 The MI5/6 plan […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] But as I have discussed ad nauseam in these columns, the JFK researchers ignore Holt because they have persuaded themselves – wrongly – that he was a fraud. The JFK researchers should start taking Holt seriously and follow the leads he provided. Never mind CIA files which may or may not actually exist; and […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
[PDF file]: […] anything! While I was expecting that to be the overall motif, I was not prepared to have it spelled out so bluntly.’44 Former City of London Police Fraud Squad officer, Rowan Bosworth-Davis: ‘Your children cannot buy a house in London because the criminal banks prefer Russian dirty money . . . Property prices have […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
[PDF file]: […] was jailed in 1996 for laundering £400,000 for Nadir but freed on appeal a year later. Nadir had fled to northern Cyprus in 1993 after a Serious Fraud Office raid on Polly Peck in 1990 collapsed its share price. He lived in exile for 17 years before returning to Britain in 2010 to ‘clear […]