[Twosugars]

They have been called “the men who plundered Europe”: a group of cowboy traders, seasoned tax lawyers and mathematical whizz kids who are alleged to have conspired in the heart of the City of London to siphon at least €60bn in taxpayers’ money from the state coffers of several EU countries.

In Britain, the so-called “cum-ex” scandal, named after the complex derivatives juggling act employed, gained little attention amid the frenzied debate around the UK’s departure from the European Union when the fraud scheme was discovered in 2017.

But in continental Europe what Le Monde has described as the “robbery of the century” has done almost as much to shape the view of Britain as Brexit itself, with Dutch media calling it “organised crime in pinstripe suits” and one of the original German whistleblowers saying he now welcomes Britain’s exit from the EU in the hope it could weaken the influence of London investment banking on European financial institutions.

https://www.theguardian.com/business...-trial-in-bonn

[arista]

Yes Corrupt Traders
Hope Germany Jails them.

[Kizzy]

Have you seen the figures banded about they've been accused of defrauding? In the EU... 650 billion!!!

And the Tories make programmes about benefit fraudsters claiming an extra tenner a week...pffft!!

[Twosugars]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Have you seen the figures banded about they've been accused of defrauding? In the EU... 650 billion!!!

And the Tories make programmes about benefit fraudsters claiming an extra tenner a week...pffft!!

It's never the rich with the cons. Bc they'd have to accuse themselves