JEREMY CORBYN reports from Hiroshima where he represented CND at the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the city by the US
The rotten stench of the City sewer
STEVEN WALKER looks at how the actions of Britain’s leading banks have earned the City of London its reputation as the money-laundering capital of the world
SOPHIE BOLT makes an urgent case for comprehensive nuclear disarmament
Today Coventry’s Hiroshima Day Remembrance marks 80 years since the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945. Statement from Coventry Lord Mayor’s Committee of Peace and Reconciliation
All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionised in a historic victory for labour, says RIO YAMAT
Letter to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper – to be delivered by a delegation of Jews to Downing Street today
Laughter has always been how workers cope and fight back, but university-educated union reps now scold members for calling bosses ‘money-grabbing bastards’ and label everyday humour ‘problematic’ — this needs to be stopped, writes MARK JONES
THE Financial Conduct Authority has launched criminal proceedings against tax-payer owned Natwest Bank for failing to comply with anti-money laundering rules, in the first attempted prosecution against a British bank under the 2007 law.
Natwest faces a potentially unlimited fine after the FCA alleged it had failed to properly monitor the actions of a gold dealer. The customer was Fowler Oldfield, a Bradford-based jewellery wholesaler that was shut down after a police investigation in 2016.
The FCA said the company paid £365m into its Natwest account in a series of increasingly large cash deposits between 2011 and 2016. A judge in a court case heard in 2019 said the 122-year-old gold dealer was involved in “an extremely sophisticated” money laundering operation, with up to £2m in cash being delivered to the business each day.
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