‘Rumours began to circulate that deals of some sort were being done. The attention switched from Scotland Yard over to the City of London CID and that the Firm Within a Firm had not been put out of business, and bent cops were still rampant.’ ibid.
Eight men had been arrested in connection with the three armed robberies. All charges [armed robbery & murder] against them are dropped. ibid.
Codenamed Operation Countryman, 27 officers from Dorset begin their investigation into the allegations of corruption in the City of London police … Operation Countryman triples in size with more than 80 officers drafted in from 10 regional forces … After 4 years and after a cost of £4 million, Operation Countryman is being wound down. Out of the 200 allegations of corruption investigated, no Metropolitan police officers were convicted of any offences. ibid.
Faced with evidence of widespread corruption, [Robert] Mark pledged to purge all bent detectives from the Force. The Lost World of the Seventies: A Report by Michael Cockerell, BBC 2012
He found Scotland Yard a secretive Masonic place with its own inbred culture. ibid.
Mark’s prime target for reform was the Flying Squad. ibid.
The CID alone would no longer investigate corruption charges against its own officers. A-10 was run by the uniformed branch. ibid.
The Commissioner took dramatic action: in a dawn raid Bill Moody was arrested – he’d been head of the dirty squad and worked for A10. Also arrested was Ken Drury, the Flying Squad chief who had been on the sunshine holiday with [James] Humphreys. The biggest fish of all was Commander Wally Virgo, who was in overall charge of both the Porn and Flying Squads. Humphreys claims he paid Virgo £2,000 in cash every month. ibid.
600 police officers who left Scotland Yard prematurely during Robert Marks’ five years at the top. ibid.
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment – and nothing more corrupting. A J P Taylor
The European Union is very popular with politicians, because it’s very good to politicians. It was created for their benefit. It’s not so good to voters, because it denies them a voice – another reason it’s popular with politicians. These days, we in Europe no longer make most of our own laws. We have them handed down to us by people we haven’t elected and can’t remove. The people we do elect are powerless to change anything, even if they wanted to, and most of them don’t want to, because they’ve got their snouts in the trough of a corrupt organisation whose accounts haven’t been signed off for the last sixteen years. Pat Condell, YouTube video 20th May 2011 ‘Come on, Ireland’
The Metropolitan police has been described as ‘institutionally corrupt’ and its commissioner, Cressida Dick, personally censured for obstruction by an independent inquiry set up to review the murder of the private detective Daniel Morgan.
The findings of a panel inquiring into Morgan’s killing in 1987 triggered calls from his brother, Alistair, for Dick to consider her position.
The panel’s findings were a victory for the 34-year-long struggle for justice by the Morgan family during which they said they endured being ‘lied to, gobbed off, bullied [and] degraded’ by those institutions they believed they had the right to rely on. The Guardian online article Dodd & Sabbagh 16th June 2021, ‘Institutionally corrupt: Daniel Morgan inquiry condemns Met’
This is a real drama. The true story of one of the best known units in the British police. Its target – ruthless armed criminals robbing banks and building societies at will ... The battle between cops and robbers escalated into shoot-outs with sawn-off shotguns and machine guns. Flying Squad: The Real Sweeney, National Geographic 2010
Increasingly, juries believed the defendants, not the police. ibid.
The clean-cut image of the police had also been damaged by a series of high-profile police corruption scandals which changed the public perception. ibid.
The smell of police corruption surfaced again in the 1990s. ibid.
This film reveals how police officers break the law. And how their colleagues go the extra mile to catch them. Breaking the Law: Bent Coppers, Channel 5 2015
Sheffield: Jon Webb was a PC in South Yorkshire police ... cash had disappeared ... Six years in prison. ibid.
Dustin Hunter was suspended by the force for drug dealing ... Seven years. ibid.
Nicholas McFadden stole drugs seized by his colleagues ... Twenty-three years. ibid.
Chris Robson hunts out bent cops ... Karakas was a police constable ... The Standard had reported on Karakas ... Karakas was involved in major organised crime ... Began planning the brutal kidnap of a bank manager ... He was playing the role of TV gangsta ... 13 years behind bars. ibid.
PC Rebecca Swanston had sex with known criminals ... Three years. ibid.
Alexis Scott at Gatwick Airport. ibid.
Some are driven by sex ... The man behind the texts was PC Jamie Slater ... Three and a half years. ibid.
What we were investigating were closely guarded secrets held at the highest level. The Men Who Sold the World Cup I: The Heist, DiscoveryPlus 2021
‘Sepp Blatter: probably the most despicable man in world sport.’ ibid.
There’s a culture of bribery and patronage that Sepp Blatter and his mentor Joao Havelange established within Fifa. ibid.
Qatar is a country where women are treated as second-class citizens, where homosexuality is a punishable crime, where the press is heavily censored. ibid.
Qatar: They have a large workforce from countries like Nepal and India. They work in punishing and dangerous conditions. ibid.
We’d been given a huge cache of emails and documents and bills and flight records and all sorts of things, and it all centred on Mohamed bin Hammam. (Football & Bribery & Corruption & Qatar) ibid.
What the Qataris and Russians were doing was corruption on an industrial scale. ibid.
Sepp Blatter totally ignored the evidence. ibid.
The FBI were investigating and the whole FIFA house of cards was about to come crashing down. ibid.
After being secretly recorded by The Sunday Times, former FIFA General Secretary Michel Zen-Ruffinen said that he opposed corruption and overstated his knowledge of it within the organisation. ibid. caption
‘Corruption within Fifa was institutionalized. It was the cost of doing business.’ The Men Who Sold the World Cup II: The Take Down, US investigator
‘This is the biggest sports bust in history.’ ibid. US news
For years, Fifa have operated like a Mafia, and at the top of course is the godfather, Sepp Blatter. ibid.
‘Mr 10%’ came from this clause he had written into the contracts with CONCACAF that 10% of every rights deal was going to Chuck Blazer.’ ibid. dude
And Blatter wanted them to be treated like royalty because they were the people in the end who delivered all his votes for the presidency. ibid.
US Charging Top FIFA Officials. ibid. CNN news banner
‘What I have done for football they should appreciate.’ ibid. Blatter
In 2021 Fifa extended Blatter’s ban from football until 2028 for accepting $24.5 million in undue economic benefits and approving payments of millions … to other officials. ibid.
The corruption of the American soul is consumerism. Ben Nicholson
He [Khashoggi] told Lockheed that the only way to win the [arms] deal was to bribe the Saudi government. Ten years later in a Senate investigation Lockheed’s chairman admitted what had happened. Stirling told the British government they would have to do the same as the Americas: pay commission to their agents in King Faisal’s entourage. If they didn’t, Britain would lose the deal. In December 1965 the Saudis announced they would buy the British planes: the bribes had worked. It was the biggest export deal in Britain’s history. And King Faisal came on a state visit to celebrate it. It was also the beginning of the modern arms trade with the Middle East which has grown to dominate Britain’s economy. And from it also came a much wider commercial relationship with Saudi Arabia. Adam Curtis, The Mayfair Set I: Who Pays Wins ***** BBC 1999
The New York attorney [Giuliani] revealed that the takeover movement was riddled with corruption. Adam Curtis, The Mayfair Set III: Destroy the Technostructure
But the revelations of corruption started by Boesky kept growing. They now spread to Britain. As in America, the Guinness scandal exposed a network of illegal share-dealing, but unlike America, only four men were convicted. Evidence of a much wider system of corruption was quietly buried. ibid.