Home Department written statement – made at on 16 November 2006.
Vernon Coaker
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
Tomorrow I will publish the summary of responses to the recent Home Office consultation document entitled "New Powers Against Organised and Financial Crime".
The green paper was published on
Establishing a civil prevention order to be used against individuals and organisations to prevent serious crime.
Improving data sharing within the public sector and between the private and public sectors so that financial crime may be more easily detected and prevented.
Introducing new offences of assisting and encouraging crime so that those on the margins of crime can be brought to justice more easily.
Amending the proceeds of crime legislation to bolster our ability to recover ill-gotten gains.
During its three-month consultation period the Green Paper generated more than l00 responses, summaries of which will be published tomorrow. The Majority of responses received were overwhelmingly supportive of the proposals. As a result, the Government intend to introduce legislation in the coming session of Parliament; the overall aim being to prevent the UK from being an attractive option for organised criminals to operate in.
Copies of the document entitled "New Powers Against Organised and Financial Crime—Summary of responses to Consultation" will be available in the House of Commons Library and on the Home Office and Crime Reduction websites.
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kenneth conner
Posted on 19 Nov 2006 2:15 pm (Report this annotation)
Why is this government licensing, taxing, regulating and protecting organised crime?
In Germany (17.11.2006 15:55) http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/81226 'In the dialer court case the prosecution is seeking hefty prison terms'
An identical dialler fraud in the UK in 2004: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4397308.stm '"If ICSTIS say they're legitimate and have given them a licence to carry on, then they're fools," counters Ms Taylor, who has not heard back from the police after she reported the matter in December 2004.' A spokesman for the telecoms giant(BT) says:"There is no legal reason why the calls should not be paid for."
In 2005 he was arrested in Spain and extradited to Germany : http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9076-1865592,00... Suspect in 'rogue-dial' internet con is arrested By Rajeev Syal A DANISH pornographer whose company is suspected of involvement in swindling 11,000 Britons with a “rogue dialling” fraud has been arrested in Germany.
Morten Sondergaard Pedersen, 38, is accused of supplying technology that switches internet users’ computers from cheap local lines to premium-rate services costing £90 an hour. His arrest, details of which will be broadcast by The Money Programme on BBC Two tomorrow, is part of a Europe-wide investigation into a network of web fraudsters.
IN 2006 Morten Sondergaard Pedersen was found guilty of defrauding 40,000 german families. http://www.elmundo-eldia.com/2005/09/27/illes_balears/112777...
Why wasn't Morten Sondergaard investigated for the fraud he targeted at thousands of UK families? Two of Sondergaard's business partners in volved in setting up that fraud are now being encouraged by Tessa Jowell and the Gambling Commission to come "on shore" .
What the hell is going on?