And it continues!
NatWest reporting £3.6bn H1 profit (up from £2.6bn for same period last year).
Though we are all due a dividend as it’s 39% owned by the taxpayer … aren’t we?
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NatWest reporting £3.6bn H1 profit (up from £2.6bn for same period last year).
Though we are all due a dividend as it’s 39% owned by the taxpayer … aren’t we?
Government likely to lose millions in dispute over PPE contract awarded via ‘VIP lane’
SG Recruitment UK allegedly failed to deliver on £20m-plus Covid contract awarded after Lord Chadlington introduction.
More of our money gone to make the rich richer
SG Recruitment UK allegedly failed to deliver on £20m-plus Covid contract awarded after Lord Chadlington introduction.
More of our money gone to make the rich richer
I always use recruitment companies to buy me clothes so it was an easy mistake to make.
And it continues!
NatWest reporting £3.6bn H1 profit (up from £2.6bn for same period last year).
Though we are all due a dividend as it’s 39% owned by the taxpayer … aren’t we?
Good work from the CEO.
They’ll be asked nicely not to do it again while Doris down the road dies of hypothermia with an empty fridge.
Feel free to move to Iran when you're finished bleating about the banks
Fortunately we have the power to end discrimination by the wealthy banking elite. Two of the ****ers have gone already.
Wish it was as easy with the Islamic leaders in Iran.
Hopefully get rid of the corrupt bastards running/ruining this country next year also
Looks that way. 14 years will have been a long time in office. I have zero confidence in what will replace them.
Iran has victims of oppression who constitute 50% of the population and we have Nigel Farage whose bank account was taken away from him. Not aware of anyone giving him a slap, punch or kick or two. Next.
It's reserved for paying compensation to those who had their bank accounts taken away because they are Brexiteers. Keep up son.And it continues!
NatWest reporting £3.6bn H1 profit (up from £2.6bn for same period last year).
Though we are all due a dividend as it’s 39% owned by the taxpayer … aren’t we?
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Second up, the original footage, which shows the same content, so we know it's not a fake edited video doing the rounds on twitter, although I suspect the twitter claims are...
https://news.sky.com/video/ukraine-war-what-do-we-know-about-the-latest-attack-on-odesa-12926106
Would be nice to see our courts dish out some similar punishments to those ****s who made big profits out of PPE etc....
Vietnam jails 50 in mass bribery trial over Covid-19 flights
Image caption,
The defendants wearing civilian shirt stood for their sentencing in the Hanoi courtroom.
By Nadeem Shad
BBC News
A court in Vietnam has jailed 54 people, including several high-ranking officials and a former minister, in one of the country's largest ever bribery and corruption cases.
Judges said the accused had extorted money from people taking repatriation flights during the Covid-19 pandemic.
One former minister was sentenced to 16 years in prison for receiving over $900,000 (£700,000) in bribes.
The court's decision comes amid a major anti-graft drive across the government.
After a trial of more than two weeks, the court in Hanoi convicted dozens of ex-officials - including several senior diplomats and a former deputy foreign minister - of receiving, offering or being complicit in bribes, fraud and abusing positions of power.
The defendants were involved in a scheme in which diplomats and businesspeople took money from Vietnamese citizens abroad who wanted to return to the country on repatriation flights during the pandemic, when commercial travel was not available.
The court said the defendants "must be punished seriously".
State-run newspaper VTC reported that 25 state officials were found guilty of taking pay-offs worth a total of $7.4m (£5.8m).
Life sentences were handed out to four former high ranking officials at the ministries of foreign affairs, health and public security, while ten businesspeople and civilians received suspended sentences.
Pham Trung Kien, ex-secretary to the deputy health minister, and To Anh Dung, former deputy minister of foreign affairs, were some of the most high profile names caught up in the scandal.
Prosecutors had sought the death penalty for Kien, who received a life sentence for being the recipient of 253 bribes in an 11 month period worth a total of $1.8m (£1.4m).
The death penalty
.....Bitch Face Mone better steer clear of Vietnam
Vietnam jails 50 in mass bribery trial over Covid-19 flights
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IMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGESImage caption,
The defendants wearing civilian shirt stood for their sentencing in the Hanoi courtroom.
By Nadeem Shad
BBC News
A court in Vietnam has jailed 54 people, including several high-ranking officials and a former minister, in one of the country's largest ever bribery and corruption cases.
Judges said the accused had extorted money from people taking repatriation flights during the Covid-19 pandemic.
One former minister was sentenced to 16 years in prison for receiving over $900,000 (£700,000) in bribes.
The court's decision comes amid a major anti-graft drive across the government.
After a trial of more than two weeks, the court in Hanoi convicted dozens of ex-officials - including several senior diplomats and a former deputy foreign minister - of receiving, offering or being complicit in bribes, fraud and abusing positions of power.
The defendants were involved in a scheme in which diplomats and businesspeople took money from Vietnamese citizens abroad who wanted to return to the country on repatriation flights during the pandemic, when commercial travel was not available.
The court said the defendants "must be punished seriously".
State-run newspaper VTC reported that 25 state officials were found guilty of taking pay-offs worth a total of $7.4m (£5.8m).
Life sentences were handed out to four former high ranking officials at the ministries of foreign affairs, health and public security, while ten businesspeople and civilians received suspended sentences.
Pham Trung Kien, ex-secretary to the deputy health minister, and To Anh Dung, former deputy minister of foreign affairs, were some of the most high profile names caught up in the scandal.
Prosecutors had sought the death penalty for Kien, who received a life sentence for being the recipient of 253 bribes in an 11 month period worth a total of $1.8m (£1.4m).
The death penalty
.....Bitch Face Mone better steer clear of Vietnam
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