In July 2013 my friend Vincent Salafia, realising that the statue of limitations on FRAUD can be 5 years in some cases, went to the Department of Finance to submit FOI requests for all files relating to the Anglo Tapes which had been released to Denis OBriens Independent Newspaper. I accompanied him and by chance we encountered Minister Brendan Howlin to put these questions to him. Why, more than two years after entering government with Fine Gael, had no banking inquiry been set up following the bank crash of September 2008, despite having promised an inquiry in their election campaign of 2010/11? How had evidence which could have proved of critical material importance in any criminal investigation into bank activities found its way from Garda Headquarters to a national newspaper? Why was there no announcement weeks after their release that there would be no investigation into this leak? Why had the DPP or the Garda Fraud Squad no instigated any investigation into the banking crash? In September 2013 (FIVE years after the date of the crash) the Central Bank reported that NO ACTION would be taken against AIB based on the information contained in the tapes. No new issues have been identified that relate to suspected criminal offences having occurred and as a result, the Central Bank does not intend, and is not required, to make any further statutory reports of suspected criminal offences to An Garda Síochána or the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement in relation to this matter. In December 2014 ... SIX years after the date of the crash ... the banking inquiry finally began. With inadequate powers to force relevant parties to attend. With no powers to prosecute. The inquiry will be another tribunal farce with a massive bill for legal representation and costs to be handed to the taxpayer at the end of it. This week in the US a judge found that David Drumm, one of the key players in the banking crash and featured extensively in the leaked tapes, had acted FRAUDULENTLY in his attempts to conceal evidence, information and assets during his application for bankruptcy. This ruling brings EVERYTHING that was contained in the Anglo Tapes back onto the doorstep of Fine Gael and Labour. The delay of this Dáil in setting up an inquiry has obviously protected those involved in the crash by allowing the statute of limitations to run out on possible criminal prosecution. The leaking of the tapes via Denis OBriens Independent resulting in trial by media and public outrage was obviously designed to jeopardize any possible proceedings as those involved would have automatically submitted to the courts that a fair hearing was impossible. The DPP, Garda Siochana, Director of Corporate Enforcement and the Financial Regulator have quite clearly protected those involved by refusing to investigate what can now be quite reasonably assumed to have been FRAUDULENT ACTIVITY within AIB. Drumm will no doubt come to some settlement with the authorities to repay a portion of his debts while retaining a substantial fortune and getting much of the debt written off. Meanwhile the banks are dragging ordinary innocent families who had no hand or part in the financial crisis, yet have been asked to carry the cost, into court to throw them into the street with no protection from the State. There is no justice for ordinary men. And the same institutions, structures, systems, players, rules, regulations and corruption that were created and engineered the crash are still in place. The financial markets are still propped up with dubious instruments like bonds, futures, credit default swaps and all manner of gambling devices which will be exposed again this year as worthless paper. The game is up. Time to storm the field. Submitting FOI Requests at the Department of Finance https://youtube/watch?v=cUVstdjvscs Confronting a very embarrassed Minister Howlin https://youtube/watch?v=u4IHEOjHNiA Dublin Says No Call for a revolution in Ireland
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 14:11:18 +0000
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