The Lord moves in mysterious ways…
August 2012
Private Eye Magazine (UK) reporter Richard Brooks states that “London is at the centre of a web of embezzlement that steals from the world’s poorest while bankers and regulators look the other way.”
August 2012
Lord Green, previously chief executive of HSBC is now linked to money laundering investigation
August 2012
Standard Chartered Bank (UK) is accused by US regulators of laundering Iranian money.
August 2012
Barclays Bank (UK) accused of “reckless mis-selling” of a business product.
July 2012
Lord Green accused by US Senate of ‘failing to halt flow of drugs cash’
July 2012
HSBC (UK) is now the focus of a major tax fraud investigation by HMRC into its Swiss -owned subsidiary. Allegations include laundering Mexican drug money and being a haven for British tax evaders.
July 2012.
25% of British Conservative Party donors come from the financial sector in the UK. Prominent Tory donors are linked both to firms that have successfully gained government contracts – and also the government decision-making panels that awarded the contracts. A clear conflict of interest.
July 2012.
Bob Diamond, UK chief executive of Barclays Bank resigns. Barclays blames ‘…senior Whitehall figures…’
July 2012.
Barclays Bank (UK) accused of fixing Libor exchange rate.
May 2012
LTSB (UK) banking chief Jessica Harper is accused by CPS of operating a £2.5m scam while working as the LTSB’s head of security and digital banking.
May 2012
Santander (UK) and LTSB (UK) accused of failing to provide affordable loans to small businesses despite signing up to the £20 billion government scheme.
(it has been often said by those who know, that ‘a week is a long time in politics’. At this point in the time-line, Lord Green has now been in his position as Minister for Trade and Investment for over a year.)
January 2011
Lord Green is appointed by David Cameron as Minister of State for Trade and Investment.
November 2010
Stephen Green is given a life peerage by David Cameron and enters the House of Lords as Lord Green
October 2010
Stephen Green, ex director of HSBC Private Banking (Suisse), The Bank of Bermuda Ltd, HSBC (Mexico), Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, steps down and discusses joining the Conservative Party with David Cameron.
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