Russian Banker Steals Billions & Flees to . . . London

Posted on August 14, 2011 by stacyherbert| 29 Comments

Stacy Summary: The property ladder climbing middle classes are no doubt salivating at the thought of the billions stolen from Russia driving up their property prices.

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29 Responses to Russian Banker Steals Billions & Flees to . . . London

  1. Kwai Chang | August 14, 2011 at 1:46 am |

    …good! localize them ALL!!!
    (knock, knock…’telegram, mam’)

  2. Mini US | August 14, 2011 at 2:19 am |

    This is a good example of Britain’s Foreign Investment policy.

  3. JonnyJames | August 14, 2011 at 3:00 am |

    Just like y’all say: the UK protects some of the most heinous criminals, oligarchs, crooks, war criminals et. al. The only rival there is the USA. We got Kissinger, Bush Jr. the Clintons, Obama, Rumsfeld, Greenspan, Cheney, Bernanke, Dimon, Buffet, Blankfein…
    Maybe NATO will vote to bomb the UK because it is harboring terrorists.

  4. Al Kyder | August 14, 2011 at 3:23 am |

    I hope that the FSB catches up with these criminals. I think he should be sent back to mother Russia, In the mail. Slice by treacherous slice.

    I wonder how Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovskyis doing. In 2004, Khodorkovsky was the wealthiest man in Russia, and was 16th on Forbes list of billionaires, today he is repairing toilets at the Gulag in one of the prison camps in the Segezh district. I hear the mosquitoes are bad this time of year

  5. bammbamm | August 14, 2011 at 3:26 am |

    Amazing. England wouldn’t give the Kaiser refuge before the revolution, but they’ll take the bankers without question.

  6. Blah blah | August 14, 2011 at 4:00 am |

    The influx of eastern european economic migrants has been having a profound effect on the south’s property ladder for a while now.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1358874/Shedding-rise-Landlords-illegally-renting-outhouses-makeshift-beds-immigrants.html
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1553378/Home-is-a-garden-shed-for-immigrant-workers.html

    And screw you, JonnyJames. Just because these people are close personal friends of the Royal Family or ex-Prime Ministers does not mean they are criminals and crooks, they just have different ways of conducting business in their native countries.

  7. JonnyJames | August 14, 2011 at 4:10 am |

    Blah Blah,
    Please forgive me, after all I’m just a redneck yank. Many of us are afflicted with an anti-monarchy mindset.

  8. YoLithos | August 14, 2011 at 4:11 am |

    The Warming will drown a lot of London (not to mention the rest). The smarter folk hie to more lofty keeps. They can enjoy their leisure reforesting the place, and filling it with game – and black bears.

    Unless the Gulf Stream finds some reason to change course a bit – in which case Noryhwestern Europe, and the Eastern US, revert to their natural condition, under an ice sheet. Since the planet – as a whole – does seem to be actually warming, maybe the glacier will only be a half, or a fifth as thick as during the previous Neanderthals’ days.

  9. SilverCondom | August 14, 2011 at 6:32 am |

    London is really a city of white collar crooks

  10. F. Beard | August 14, 2011 at 9:41 am |

    “Give me your tired, your poor,
    Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
    The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
    Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
    I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”     from The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus, 1883 [bold added]

    I wonder what the British version says?

  11. F. Beard | August 14, 2011 at 9:43 am |

    …good! localize them ALL!!! Kung Fu

    Does London have seven hills?

  12. Trevor Morgan | August 14, 2011 at 9:55 am |

    Anglophobes welcome here

  13. F. Beard | August 14, 2011 at 10:33 am |

    Anglophobes welcome here Trevor Morgan

    Actually, there is very much to admire about the English. But it is pathetic that England has sunk to being a refuge for financial criminals.

    Still, I have more hope that England will reform than the US.

  15. stacyherbert | August 14, 2011 at 11:39 am |

    @JonnyJames – notice that the list of crooks being ‘harboured’ by America are American; the Brits are harboring those who have stolen billions from their native lands and have brought the cash to be laundered in the UK

  16. I_Can_Believe_Its_Just_a_Dip | August 14, 2011 at 12:05 pm |

    Would suggesting a certain unstable element of symbol Po be considered a bit OTT in the circumstances?

  17. I_Can_Believe_Its_Just_a_Dip | August 14, 2011 at 12:43 pm |

    @F beard, London is very flat and at risk from floods. I’m told by climbers theres only 1 decent rock worth climbing in the S East. Sheffield is called the 7 hills and climbers come from all over the world to climb in the Peak District national park that we border.
    @Stacy, hasn’t central London got the highest property prices in the world partly for that reason.

  18. PewDead | August 14, 2011 at 1:02 pm |

    @ I_Can_
    I was just about to ask…
    Anyone got some polonium?

  19. farang | August 14, 2011 at 1:10 pm |

    If it ain’t gold, silver, platinum or Swiss Francs…he is going to be sorry soon…..

  20. Kwai Chang | August 14, 2011 at 1:11 pm |

    @F. Beard…
    I don’t know what’s in London…
    but please don’t hurt the Abbey Road Crosswalk…
    (I love The Beatles…real hope…they were)

  21. Bruce | August 14, 2011 at 1:43 pm |

    …and please don’t hurt Harry Potter….!

  22. Bruce | August 14, 2011 at 1:47 pm |

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution <— back in the day, they proved their intellect, if not their cooking skills.

  23. I_Can_Believe_Its_Just_a_Dip | August 14, 2011 at 3:21 pm |

    @bruce, we were there first with many things and I agree with you on the cooking front lol. Harry Potter can always magic himself away so no need to worry there.
    This is a much smarter read(sadly the filmed kinda flopped)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Dark_Materials

  24. English Republic | August 14, 2011 at 3:57 pm |

    @ Stacy – always nice to see someone understands the hideous nature of the property ladder (neo-feudalism) here…however, I’d like to add a qualification to your salivating ‘middle classes.’ Young middle classes (except ofc bankers) can’t afford a house. We’re too busy paying extortionate rents to retired bin men who lucked-in on the boom. 20% deposit on an averege 3 bed house round here is 40k + – as a lowly (albeit senior) teacher with a wife caring for a disabled child I don’t stand a chance in hell of getting a house. OFC if I was in social housing I could have a dog and paint the walls, but here my chav of a landlord insists on no pets, no kids’ pictures on the wall….so in summary it aint the middle classes salivating, it’s the middle aged.

  25. English Republic | August 14, 2011 at 4:00 pm |

    @Kwai..I think that Abbey road crossing now has a sign saying …’elderly people crossing’.

    LOL. Or maybe that’s an urban myth.

  26. F. Beard | August 14, 2011 at 5:15 pm |

    (I love The Beatles…real hope…they were) Kung Fu.

    1964 was the peak year for popular music, imo.

  27. Jayme | August 14, 2011 at 7:33 pm |

    Clearly, the banking system as designed will continue to form warts and boils if the disease isn’t cured.

  28. Marc Authier | August 14, 2011 at 8:02 pm |

    Russia is a british colony. Is there some polunium left ? I would administer it to his fuckin british wife also. It’s UK specialty of plundering places like Russia. With the help of the local assholes we must add.

  29. Alastair Carnegie | August 15, 2011 at 7:33 pm |

    In Russia, honest bankers either find another job, or wait for the Mafia to organise their funeral… What was the last count of dead Russian Bankers? it must be well over 20 by now.