Based on our work Thurrock sued him for fraud. In his newly submitted response to the court, Kavanagh admits receiving a large part of the £130m “for his own benefit” but that he "honestly believed he was entitled to receive the monies that were transferred to him and to do with as he wished"
Businessman Liam Kavanagh admits he pocketed “substantial part” of £130m Thurrock council thought it was investing in a solar park deal
New by me for @tbij.bsky.social
Swedish Supreme Court acquits former Swedbank CEO Bonnesen in Estonia money laundering case reut.rs/4cq4Gec
The ‘eating cats and dogs’ fake news is back but this time it’s reserved for Somalis
It's amazing that RFK is not the most insane person in the US cabinet. Perhaps not even top three.
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This is important.
Have you ever thought about how investigative journalists find out who owns a company?
One way is looking up its "ultimate beneficial owner" — not the next highest corporate layer, but the person at the top of the chain — in an official registry.
But...
There does seem to have been a surprisingly large number of verging-on inexplicable mistakes by senior civil servants since Keir Starmer became prime minister. Odd.
John 3:16 "Aw, man. I just shot Marvin in the face"
Ironically the BBC stumbled on a really important story: Desperate asylum seekers being forced to turn to fraudulent fee-charging “advisors” to navigate a system that is intentionally impossibly baroque and from which all sources of free advice have been removed.
But no: they chose Fake Gay Panic.
So it wasn't just Matt Goodwin and Reform, Orban was bankrolling US politics too.
@petergeoghegan.bsky.social
Could MattGPT face scrutiny under the UK’s ‘proceeds of crime’ law? The British right is awash with money from Orban thinktanks…which Hungary’s new PM says was stolen.
Brilliant deep dive into Orban’s vast UK network by @McCoolingtons
for @thenerve_news. 👏
As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages. www.wired.com/story/the-in...
So far, Vance’s foreign policy record is yelling at Zelensky for not thanking Trump enough, campaigning for AfD in Germany and Orban in Hungary, getting rejected by the Pope on his invite to the US, and failing in the Iran negotiations.
“I delivered bags of money from Mogilevich to the police chief, and more for Orbán": Former Budapest gang member László Kovács tells all
Putin had kompromat on Orban
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Important piece on the uncritical and credulous embrace of AI by the UK government. It's been immensely frustrating watching this happen. They seem to be in thrall to the hype of tech CEOs and boosterists, with no sceptical voices to moderate it.
www.newstatesman.com/technology/2...
The more I’ve learned about private equity, the more I’ve come to see it as a metaphor for how power and wealth now operate in Britain. I wrote about it for @theguardian.com - two days before THE ASSET CLASS publishes: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
From Roger Scruton cafes to paying Matt Goodwin $10k a month, Viktor Orban has built a network of populist right think tanks, journalists and activists
Today Democracy for Sale delves into Orban’s allies on the British right
Well worth a read
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits
To understand better how it came to be that private equity has its fingers in everything from childcare to housing and media, get yourself a copy of @hettieobrien.bsky.social book out next week!
www.waterstones.com/book/the-ass...
Another triumph for deregulation! By saving a few million in monitoring and enforcement, our governments have landed us with a vast illegal waste dumping problem, new organised crime networks and a clean-up bill that could run to tens of billions.
My column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The US public has a mistaken understanding of where the get their oil from.
Really important piece - the typical Curacao/Cyprus corporate structuring model of these companies is one that needs a lot of more scrutiny from the authorities.
Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Extract List of Jews From Penn The decision to allow the government to collect the names and phone numbers of Jewish people on campus could allow the government to pursue similar tactics elsewhere. • Listen • 3:32 min < 1 TODAY
As a Jewish historian who works at a university, I think it’s great that an administration committed to destroying “the internal globalist enemy” which is staffed by groyper antisemites is collecting lists of Jews. Can’t see any potential downside here at all.
This is all very mucky. You'd like to think Google might do more to defend original journalism from this sort of nonsense.
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The Erling Haaland of political own goals strikes again
