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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. |
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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. |
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11 May 2008 17:52
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