Thousands British top-managers are suspected of dishonesty
25 February 2008About four thousand heads of British companies appear in the international lists of suspected of swindle, money-laundering and financing of terrorist groupings.
Such results were received in the research carried out by British non-governmental financial service World-Check.
World-Check’s list of top-managers includes, in particular, 154 suspected of financial frauds, 37 – of drugs trafficking and 13 persons are wanted by Interpol on suspicion of participation in terrorist activity. Some top-managers are in prison, that does not prevent them to continue managing of their organizations.
Experts explain the present state of affairs by imperfection of new companies’ registration system in the United Kingdom. According to the existing legislation, only bankruptcy or judicial restrictions to take up a post do not allow the natural person to direct the business in the British company.
World-Check gives results of the researches to 2,5 thousand organizations worldwide, including financial institutions and law enforcement bodies.