Britain is most corrupt country on Earth, says Mafia expert

[Cybran]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2...-expert-rober/

The author of international bestsellers Gomorra and ZeroZeroZero, has lived under police protection since publically denouncing members of the Camorra, a powerful Neopolitan organised crime syndicate, in 2006.

On Saturday he made a rare historic appearance at the Hay Literary Festival flanked by several security guards.

He warned the audience in Hay-on-Wye that financial institutions were allowing ‘criminal capitalism’ to thrive through offshore holdings. And he warned that a vote to leave the European Union would leave Britain even more exposed to the organised crime.

“If I asked you what is the most corrupt place on Earth you might tell me well it’s Afghanistan, maybe Greece, Nigeria, the South of Italy and I will tell you it’s the UK,” he said.

“It’s not the bureaucracy, it’s not the police, it’s not the politics but what is corrupt is the financial capital. 90 per cent of the owners of capital in London have their headquarters offshore.

“Jersey and the Cayman’s are the access gates to criminal capital in Europe and the UK is the country that allows it. That is why it is important why it is so crucial for me to be here today and to talk to you because I want to tell you , this is about you, this is about your life, this is about your government.

“Leaving the EU means allowing this to take place. It means allowing the Qatari societies, the Mexican cartels, the Russia Mafia to gain even more power and HSBC has paid £2 billion Euros in fines to the US government, because it confessed that it had laundered money coming from the cartels and the Iranian companies. We have proof, we have evidence.”

Gomorra, a non-fiction novel which named members of the clan and exposed its business connections and criminal activity, his life was threatened and a plot put in place to eliminate him and his police escort with a bomb.

The death threats led to a public outcry from fellow writers, including six nobel laureates including Desmond Tutu, Mikhail Gorbachev and Orphan Pamuk, who warned the Camorra were becoming a threat against security and public order.

Signatures were also collected on the web site of the Italian newspaper La Repubblica calling for the government to protect him.

Saviano said: “I was 26 years old when I got myself into this situation and I could not imagine that it would end like this because many books have been written on the Mafia, but it was my book that made them so angry.

“I was telling real facts, I was naming names. My life is unique. I am followed by two bullet proofed cars and by more than five officers and that brings about a feeling of guilt sometimes because you exposed yourself too much, you were not cautious enough.

“But the freedom of expression that you enjoy is not to be taken for granted and there is always somebody who fights for it and if it’s not you it’s somebody else in your place.

“I consider myself lucky that I was not killed. When you start telling these stories you know that your life is at stake, you know you might be killed, but what scares you the most is defamation.”

The London City needs to be cleaned up. All of London basically functions on trickled down blood money. It's disgusting.

[Deleted]

We can start by booting out those damned Wombles!

[Thoughtful Trolli]

in the end, it was 007 who got ahold of the brainwashing 8 bit device. The sun never sets on the British Empire because they're slaves rise with the sun and set with the sun like plant and argricultural slaves should, isntead of sleep into the evening and hunt halfway throught he night as any good human normall would have while they continue to tell you lies like inbreeding leads to defects as the crown themselves continue to do it, and people are too dumb to see tall people mating make more tall people, duh.

[Puupi]

Oh Cryban, these threads you make are getting really desperate - are you afraid you are going to lose your job?

[Radaney]

So I should vote to stay in the EU because of Organised Crime? Is that the best they can come up with.

Come on ffs...

[May90]

So, a guy who used to do organized crime in Britain now says that Britain is the most corrupt country on Earth? This is just... wow. I guess anime isn't the worst source for political information after all.

[Ripster42]

Ha ha, it's the most corrupt place because their laws make it easy for the russian mob. Not the place where the russian mob comes from. Riiiight.

[Cybran]

Ha ha, it's the most corrupt place because their laws make it easy for the russian mob. Not the place where the russian mob comes from. Riiiight.

Their laws are designed to attract dirty money. They feed of crime and corruption.

[Orby]

We can start by booting out those damned Wombles!

But who else will clean Wimbledon

[Deleted]

woo we're number 1. Come on rest of the world, are you even trying???

[Serpha]

I don't think it's most corrupt but is not free from it. Councils are most apparent, corruption in them runs deep.

[Deleted]

But who else will clean Wimbledon

British rats will take their place.

[Ripster42]

Their laws are designed to attract dirty money. They feed of crime and corruption.

Uh huh. Tell me more cryban. How the countries that house the illegal activities that produce the ill-gotten gains are less corrupt than the ones that by and large aren't kleptocracys, you know, like russia is.

[Deleted]

Uh huh. Tell me more cryban. How the countries that house the illegal activities that produce the ill-gotten gains are less corrupt than the ones that by and large aren't kleptocracys, you know, like russia is.

Britain would be more appealling to mobsters because their is a very good chance Putin will take a cut in Russia. Here we've opened the floodgates to the criminal super-rich without any scrutiny.

[Deleted]

how is britain the most corrupt in the world, what you expect its the telegraph website there news is about as credible as the suns or daily star

[Ripster42]

Britain would be more appealling to mobsters because their is a very good chance Putin will take a cut in Russia. Here we've opened the floodgates to the criminal super-rich without any scrutiny.

The op is all about storing the economic gains that were produced in another country illegally, not about actually engaging in the illegal activities directly. Shitty, but not as shitty comparatively, which is what ranking different countries is about. Would you rather have people kidnapping your daughter or a banker storing money from someone kidnapping someone else's daughter in a different country?

In other words, what's worse, the gangster or their accountant? Most people think the gangster.

[McDeloud]

http://www.cheatsheet.com/business/7...ountries.html/

But you can add Ukraine and Russia to that list for sure (TOP5 probably).

[Deleted]

The op is all about storing the economic gains that were produced in another country illegally, not about actually engaging in the illegal activities directly. Shitty, but not as shitty comparatively, which is what ranking different countries is about. Would you rather have people kidnapping your daughter or a banker storing money from someone kidnapping someone else's daughter in a different country?

In other words, what's worse, the gangster or their accountant? Most people think the gangster.

The banks stole everyone's money, everyone feels the effects directly. There's this myth that financial crime doesn't hurt people, it does, it is just most people are too stupid to see it.

[xChurch]

In the current climate, saying "most corrupt" doesn't really have any oomphf to it. Most countries are working for the few rather than the many, this has been the case pretty much throughout our history.

[ParanoiD84]

Think they need to check out some african countrys if they think that lol.