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The 'Natwest Three' Blamed The British Government For Being Extradited To America.
The 'Natwest Three' should face up to the fact that they went to prison because they broke the law.
 pallan281  11 May 2008 17:52
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The 'Natwest Three' ( also known as the Enron Three, are three British businessmen - Giles Darby, David Bermingham and Gary Mulgrew) were wanted by the USA to face charges involving the Enron Fraud. The British Government were negotiating an extradition agreement with the USA, and at the time they were extradited to the USA. Great Britain had signed the agreement but the USA had not. It was in effect a one way agreement.

The 'Natwest Three' blamed the British Government for the fact that they had been imprisoned by the US Courts. There was no mention of the fact that they went to prison because they had broken the law.

When will people take responsibility for their actions? They eventually admitted the offence of wire fraud and were sentenced to 37 months in prison. They were ordered to pay back $7.3m dollars.
 
 pallan281  11 May 2008 17:55
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Whose law did they break? The Serious Fraud Office decided that there wasn't enough evidence to prosecute them in Britain, yet that same evidence supposedly was used to prosecute them in the United States.

I've no doubt that they are thieving scum, but some of the concerns raised by their PR campaign were legitimate. Why should British citizens be subject to American law, particularly when Americans are not subject to British law to anything like the same extent?

If a crime was committed, it should have been prosecuted in Britain. The claim that the crime involved the "US banking system" is a ridiculous ploy to assert extra-territorial legal authority. You could say the same thing about internet transactions : That because the packets passed through one country, it has the legal right to prosecute any crime that may have been committed.

Tony Blair was a quisling leader who sold his countrymen out to the Americans, and the Natwest case is just one example of it.
 
 Hidell  11 May 2008 18:24
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 They admitted the charge. You believe them to be 'thieving scum' yet it was wrong to extradite them to America if we cannot have their citizens extradited here??
by  pallan281
 11 May 2008 18:26
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