[…] Avakov ran for election as Kharkiv city mayor, but was defeated by Hennediy Kernes, a local business rival. The election was accompanied by widespread accusations of vote fraud, and the result was hotly contested. Electoral fraud is so commonplace in Ukraine that there is a nationally-known slang term for it – ‘Buckwheat’ – derived […]
[…] While I was expecting that to be the overall motif, I was not prepared to have it spelled out so bluntly.’4 2 Former City of London Police Fraud Squad officer, Rowan Bosworth-Davis:4 3 ‘Your children cannot buy a house in London because the criminal banks prefer Russian dirty money…… ……Property prices have escalated way […]
[…] from the European Union are a 13 14 threat to the City. Bottom line: to preserve the City as a world centre of money-laundering, gambling and financial fraud the UK may have to leave the Union. Huh? Did someone say the world of politics is getting complicated? This appeared in the Daily Telegraph.1 5 […]
[PDF file]: […] National Union of Teachers in the early 1980s to take on such choice Thatcher or 1 2 This is detailed at great length in Paul Holden’s The Fraud (London: OR Books, 2025). It is summarised here or . 3 1 favourites as Sir Keith Joseph and Sir Rhodes Boyson. This was just a few […]
[PDF file]: […] Labour Party, still seeking to recover from UKIP May local election successes following the jailing of the town’s former MP Denis MacShane. Ahead of his sentence for fraud at the Old Bailey, Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman was one of a cavalcade of friends attesting to MacShane’s good character. Another old pal of the […]
[PDF file]: […] the privatisers: 1. The public service ethos did exist and was most valuable in maintaining standards, continuity and honesty within public provision. 2. Multiplying the opportunities for fraud inevitably results in more fraud. The Wiki entry on him is incomplete but conveys something of this. He contributed ‘Laissez faire as religion’ to Lobster 58. […]
[PDF file]: […] managed effectively — profitably — measurement and reporting systems were borrowed from the leading edge of management and organisational theory. General William Westmoreland was discredited for ‘accounting fraud’ while waging the military side of the campaign.24 However such fraud was inherent in the overall strategy, both covert and overt. As there were not two […]
[PDF file]: […] read: regulators from the European Union are a threat to the City. Bottom line: to preserve the City as a world centre of money-laundering, gambling and financial fraud the UK may have to leave the Union. Huh? Did someone say the world of politics is getting complicated? This appeared in the Daily Telegraph. ‘Iraq […]
[PDF file]: […] Geller by Margolis. The first, in 1998, was a biography, Uri Geller: Magician or Mystic? Writing that, Margolis began as a sceptic – assuming Geller was a fraud, essentially – and ended up accepting that he wasn’t. This is in part a rehash of that with some new material added, the intelligence stuff – […]
