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Wikileaks has the leaked documents.
Barclays Bank gags Guardian over leaked memos detailing offshore tax scam, 16 Mar 2009
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(Redirected from The Guardian: Censored Barclays tax avoidance leaked memos, 16 Mar 2009)
http://88.80.13.160/wiki/The_Guardian:_Censored_Barclays_tax_avoidance _leaked_memos%2C_16_Mar_2009
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Summary
On Monday 16th March 2009, The Guardian newspaper in the United Kingdom published a series of leaked memos from the banking giant Barclays, together with the article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/mar/16/revenue-investigates-ba rclays-tax-mole-claims
The next day, these documents were removed from The Guardian web archive, as a result of a court injunction obtained in the middle of the night:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/mar/17/barclays-guardian-injun ction-tax
Barclays' lawyers, Freshfields, worked into the early hours to force the Guardian to remove the documents from the website. They argued that the documents were the property of Barclays and could only have been leaked by someone who acquired them wrongfully and in breach of confidentiality agreements.
The Guardian's solicitor, Geraldine Proudler, was woken by the judge at 2am and asked to argue the Guardian's case by telephone. Around 2.31am, Mr Justice Ouseley issued an order for the documents to be removed from the Guardian's website.
The documents are copies of alleged internal memos from within Barclays Bank. They were sent by an anonymous whistleblower to Vince Cable, Liberal-Democrat shadow chancellor. The documents reveal a number of elaborate international tax avoidance schemes by the SCM (Structured Capital Markets) division of Barclays.
According to these documents, Barclays has been systematically assisting clients to avoid huge amounts of tax they should be liable for across multiple jurisdictions.
A commentator to the Financial Times stated:
I was lucky enough to read through the first of the Barclays documents...
I will say it was absolutely breathtaking, extraordinary. The depth of deceit, connivance and deliberate, artificial avoidance stunned me. The intricacy and artificiality of the scheme deeply was absolutely evident, as was the fact that the knew exactly what they were doing and why: to get money from one point in London to another without paying tax, via about 10 offshore companies. Simple, deliberate outcome, clearly stated, with the exact names of who was doing this, and no other purpose.
Until now I have been a supporter of the finance industry - I work with people there regularly and respect many of them, and greatly enjoy the Financial Times and other financial papers. However this has shone a light on something for me, and made me certain that these people belong in jail, and companies like Barclays deserve to be bankrupt. They have robbed everyone of us, every single person who pays tax or who will ever pay tax in this country (and other countries!), through both the bailouts and schemes such as this.
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Lawyers and accountants helping to bypass laws and avoid government tax?
Cant believe it.
I had them as being communists always wanting government subsidies to bailout bankrupt businesses 
There is nothing better than a free lunch, now is there.
The banksters are on their final leg in the marathon.
They think they are about to win forever, but they are about to bring their own house down around them.
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Seems this outage may also be linked to wikileaks publication of a list of sites censored by the Australian comms regulator.
Wikileaks needs our help.
| Quote: | Australia secretly censors Wikileaks press release and Danish Internet censorship list, 16 Mar 2009
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Unless otherwise specified the document described here:
* Was first publicly revealed by Wikileaks working with our source.
* At that time was classified, confidential, censored or otherwise withheld from the public.
* Is of political, diplomatic, ethical or historical significance.
* Any questions about this document's veracity are noted.
* The summary is approved by the editorial board.
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Summary
The first rule of censorship is that you cannot talk about censorship.
In late 2008, Wikileaks released the secret Internet censorship list for Denmark, together with a press release condemning the practice for lack of public or judicial oversight. Here's an extract from the press release:
The list is generated without judicial or public oversight and is kept secret by the ISPs using it. Unaccountability is intrinsic to such a secret censorship system.
Most sites on the list are still censored (i.e must be on the current list), even though many have clearly changed owners or were possibly even wrongly placed on the list, for example the Dutch transport company Vanbokhorst.
The list has been leaked because cases such as Thailand and Finland demonstrate that once a secret censorship system is established for pornographic content the same system can rapidly expand to cover other material, including political material, at the worst possible moment -- when government needs reform.
Two days ago Wikileaks released the secret Internet censorship list for Thailand. Of the 1,203 sites censored this year, all have the internally noted reason of "lese majeste" -- criticizing the Royal family. Like Denmark, the Thai censorship system was originally promoted as a mechanism to prevent the flow of child pornography.
An Australian anti-censorship activist submitted the page to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), requesting that they censor it, under their internal guidelines. The activist wished to expose the "slippery scope" of the proposed Mandatory Internet Censorship scheme.
The press release and the list itself have now been placed into the secret Australian government blacklist of "Prohibited Online Content".
The content on the blacklist is illegal to publish or link to in Australia, with fines of upto $11,000 a day for contraventions.
The ACMA blacklist is proposed to become the list with which the Australian Government will mandatory block all Australians Internet requests. Presently censorship of access attempts by ISPs is voluntary. The Australian government has faced strong opposition over the scheme, with the Liberal (conservative) and Green (liberal left) opposition parties stating they will vote against it.
See also:
* http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Denmark:_3863_sites_on_censorship_list,_Feb_ 2008 (the censored URL)
* Whirlpool forum discussion[1]
* http://www.somebodythinkofthechildren.com/
* Australian Government censorship of US anti-abortion site abortiontv.com, 21 Jan 2009
The downloadable file contains a PDF of the request. What follows is the emailed reply from ACMA, agreeing to the censorship request. At no stage did the Australian government contact Wikileaks.
ACMA reply received today 16/3/09 at 2:49 pm Australian time:
Complaint Reference: 2009000154 / ACMA-1303474585
Dear *******
I refer to the complaint that you lodged with the Australian
Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) on 19 February 2009 about
certain online content.
Following investigation of your complaint, ACMA is satisfied that
the Internet content specified in your complaint is hosted outside
Australia, and that the content is prohibited content or potential
prohibited content as defined by Schedule 7 to the Broadcasting
Services Act 1992.
The Internet Industry Association (IIA) has a code of practice
(http://www.iia.net.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=415&I temid=33)
for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) which, among other things,
sets out arrangements for dealing with such content. In accordance
with the code, ACMA has notified the above content to the makers
of IIA approved filters, for their attention and appropriate action.
The code requires ISPs to make available to customers an IIA approved
filter.
On this occasion ACMA has also referred the matter to the appropriate
law enforcement agency.
Information about ACMA's role in regulating online content (including
internet and mobile content), including what is prohibited or
potentially prohibited content is available at ACMA's website at
www.acma.gov.au/hotline
Thank you for bringing this matter to ACMA's attention. Please
contact the Content Assessment Section at online@acma.gov.au if you
have any further questions about this matter.
Yours faithfully
Content Assessment Section
Australian Communications and Media Authority
1. ↑ *http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1158941&p=44#r873 |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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I have no problem with Wikileaks. I have downloaded the zip file.
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I have posted a link on my site and will add zip file
http://www.a-i-darlo.com
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Extract from:-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/mar/19/new-barclays-tax-whistl eblower-claims
| Quote: | Sources with detailed knowledge of the Structured Capital Markets division of Barclays told the Guardian yesterday that its main purpose was to make profits from tax trades.
"Every single thing SCM does is a tax trade," said one. "The deals start with tax and then commercial purpose is added to them. We were told that in one year SCM made between £900m and £1bn profit from tax avoidance."
The sources painted a picture of a brutally competitive environment at SCM, source of a major part of Barclay's past profits. One describes high-rolling poker games, abrupt sackings, and a "motivation" game in which an executive was strapped into a mock electric chair. |
Erm, just what planet are we on here? Shades of Skull & Bones? Al Capone?
As the wikileaks error was 'connection reset' I can imagine these documents are now 'viral' - they're certainly a manifestation of disease!
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Just an update:-
http://www.wikileaks.org/
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Wikileaks is currently overloaded by readers. This is a regular difficulty that can only be resolved by deploying additional resources. If you support our mission, then show it in the way that is most needed. On average, each donation catalyzes the publication of around 150 mainstream press articles, exposing human rights abuses and corrupt government around the world. These exposures result in substantial reforms and have changed national election outcomes.
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And I don't see the wikileaks bods as 'cashers-in', do you?
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