Sunday 18 August 2013

Britain is fast turning into a Banana Republic, wilfully blind to corruption | @Ian_Fraser

Britain is fast turning into a Banana Republic, wilfully blind to corruption | Ian Fraser:

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Prince Andrew does not believe in tackling corruption.
Picture via CS Monitor
You may remember that, back in November 2010, it emerged that a “cocky” Prince Andrew appeared to welcome and endorse bribery and corruption — or at least that he abhors those who would seek to get in its way, including anti-corruption regulators and investigative journalists (by the way, we only know this thanks to the efforts of the recently convicted U.S. army private Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks and The Guardian).

In an October 2008 U.S. embassy cable Tatiana Gfoeller, the U.S. ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, revealed that during a 2008 engagement at a hotel in the central Asian republic’s capital, Bishkek, a “rude” Prince Andrew — who for some inexplicable reason is a UK trade representative — attacked the Serious Fraud Office for what he called “idiocy”."

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