Taken from News of the World Online
By GIOVANNI DI STEFANO
"NOTW Online has in the past two months written about what we called State Murder. It concentrated on murder within the United States of America. State Murder is not sadly limited to the United States of America. Over the next few weeks we shall disclose at least 68 murders that occured within the time Tony Blair was Prime Minister. It will be for others to decide and take action but as always our files are available to the prosecuting authorities. This is but one case of UK State Murder."
Richard Chang, a senior business analyst working for Abbey National, died after a fall of over 80ft after an interrogation by Kroll Associates relating to an anonymous document alleging fraud by senior directors. The verdict at the Coroner's Inquest was suicide.
The circumstances surrounding Richard's death are suspicious. The parents, sisters and friends of Richard Chang do not believe he committed suicide.
The circumstances surrounding his death have not been properly investigated by the police. The police decided that Richard had committed suicide very early on in their investigation and everything was slanted towards that decision from the beginning. The police came to the decision it was a suicide because of:
1. An alleged suicide note.
2. A witness who alleged he saw Richard climb over the fifth floor balcony.
3. Howard Jones, a former detective superintendent of the Metropolitan police told the senior investigating officer that the death was not suspicious.
We investigate what was wrong with their decision.
The alleged suicide note
Three forensic reports concluded that the possibility that the signature is not genuine cannot be ruled out. The police refused Mr and Mrs Chang's repeated request to test the original note for authenticity. Richard was told not to bring anything to the meeting. Jones said he saw Richard with a notepad in the meeting. The notepad was never found. The Coroner refused to allow Mr and Mrs Chang's legal representatives to put forward any questions relating to the notepad.
The witnesses
Alastair Beattie, the only person who claimed to have seen Richard climb over the balcony, is not a reliable witness. His witness statement and testimony at the inquest contained major discrepancies relating to descriptions and times. Beattie started working at Abbey five weeks before Richard died. His statement stated he is a senior business analyst. His background is psychology, NLP and training by Guyanese Defence Police in jungle survival techniques.
The press officer for Abbey said in his witness statement that he saw Richard in his office on the fifth floor at 12.30. Howard Jones and Peter Pender-Cudlip said that Richard was in the meeting between 10.45 to 1pm and did not leave the room. It seems impossible for Richard to have been in two places at the same time. A witness approached the family soon after the death and confirmed that they saw Alastair Beattie being called to the CEO's office with Richard's possessions in his hands before he had spoken to the police.
The Abbey National building (now Santander) from which Richard plunged to his death
Howard Jones and Kroll Associates (corporate investigators)
Howard Jones was at the centre of a suspicious death. The senior investigating officer was influenced by the narrative given by Jones. Jones's part on the day was suspicious because:
1. He secretly recorded the interrogation with a device hidden in his briefcase. He did not give his copy of the recording of the interrogation to the police until 3 weeks after the incident. It is more than possible the tape was edited. Vincent Santeng (the other person to be interrogated at 1.30pm) swore on oath at the inquest that his recording of his interrogation had been heavily edited. He alleged the parts relating to harassment and his race were removed. Abbey claimed that Kroll did not inform them they were going to record the interrogation
Forensic analysis of audio tape of interrogation of Richard Chang
The expert witness report states:
(a) "In making the analogue copies of the digital recording the police have introduced noise which degrades the recordings because they have copied onto audio cassettes. They have also been apparently careless insofar as the audio levels for each of the four sides (of the audio tapes) are different one to the other. Also the left and right hand channels vary in level one to the other."
(b) Recording of Vincent Santeng's interrogation "The problem with this recording was that the audio level was set too high together with a 'tinny' quality throughout which resulted in distortion of the replayed audio. This makes it unsuitable to use as a control recording to compare the acoustic qualities of the interview room with the recording of the interrogation of Mr Chang."
(c) "The audio levels and break points suggest to me that the process used to generate the audio cassettes was less than satisfactory. Because of this, analysis to investigate possible editing is difficult. Also the recording of the interview with Vincent Santeng was not of good quality and was not suitable for use as a control recording."
(d) "At this stage I cannot go further than to say that it is possible that editing has taken place."
2. Jones requested that no witnesses from Abbey should be present and that Richard should be interviewed on his own.
3. The alleged suicide note was addressed to Jones.
4. Jones stated that the anonymous document contained allegations of fraud and corruption. He said in the interrogation he believed in part that these allegations were true.
5. The senior directors' selection process used to select Richard and his line manager was fundamentally flawed. The police refuse to release documents which may show Richard did not write the anonymous document (and therefore would not have had a motive to commit suicide).
The Financial Services Authority (FSA)
Nathan Bostock (Head of Abbey Treasury service), Karen Fortunato (Company Secretary) and Robin Parkinson (Legal Manager), told the police that the FSA had advised Abbey that whoever wrote the anonymous document was a threat to security. This was main reason given to the police why Richard had been called into the meeting, without notice that he was to be interrogated and hence denied his employment right to have a representative present to ensure fair play. The Employee Relations Officer said he had a feeling that someone was going to be mistreated by management. The FSA have confirmed in writing that they did not give any advice to Abbey about the anonymous document.
The Coroner's post mortem was not a forensic post mortem
The pathologist is a medical expert who determines the cause of death. The post mortem report stated: 'Marks of violence. Treatment and identification: Large gaping deep laceration on the forehead and involved the left eye. Severe compound skull fractures with extruded brain tissue received in separate bag. Triple small circular bruises in a line on right shoulder. And red bruise to the front on right upper arm. Small red abrasion on right elbow. Superficial abrasions on the shins and front of the ankles. Fracture deformity of left leg. No other significant marks of violence.'
The pathologist conducted the post mortem based on the fact that the death was not suspicious.
Dr Freddy Patel
A forensic post mortem was not carried out. The pathologist did not turn up at the inquest so Mr and Mrs Chang's legal representatives were not able to put further questions to him. Dr Freddie Patel, the pathologist, made a mistake in the Anthony Hardy case about the cause of death. He ruled that the victim had died of natural causes when in fact he had been murdered (see below).
Other post-mortems conducted by Dr Patel
Anthony Hardy, who killed three women and mutilated two of them to satisfy his "depraved and perverted" sexual cravings, was jailed for life. Anthony Hardy dismembered two of his victims, leaving their body parts in bin bags near his home in Camden, north London. Nine months earlier, officers had discovered the body of another woman in his flat, but her death had been put down to natural causes by Dr Patel.
Dr Patel and Anthony Hardy
Dr Patel claimed that she died of a heart attack and not foul play. However, her death from 'natural causes' would later be questioned when the remains of other women were discovered in Hardy's flat. It emerged that Hardy had also previously been investigated about a series of rapes. He pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to all three murders.
The Inquest dismissed marks of violence.
The body
Witnesses said prior to the fall there was no shouting or sound from Richard. Several witnesses confirmed that there was hardly any or no blood where the body landed. It appears that the body landed head first on the left hand side of the head. Witnesses have confirmed that part of the skull broke away and brain tissue splattered on the walls and area around the body. The post mortem confirmed that the cerebral arteries were severed. Our legal representatives at the inquest confirmed that the photographs shown to them of the deceased lying on the floor showed no blood.
Richard's medical records
Medical records prove conclusively that Richard did not have any history of mental illness. They also show Richard had a weak right wrist due to an injury he had sustained about 15 years previously. It has been confirmed at the time of his death that his wrist was arthritic.
The Coroner and Health and Safety
Health and Safety have confirmed that they received a call a few days after the death telling them that they were treating the death as a suicide. The Coroner did not give his consent for the police report to be released to the Health and Safety team, even though they had requested it. As a result, they did not know that the death was related to an incident at work and as a result, no investigation was ever done on their part.
The Coroner and ACAS
The Coroner stated that he would be making a report in which he would make recommendations and ACAS would be invited to look at it. ACAS have confirmed that they have never received a copy.
Calls made on the day
Richard called his mother at 9.15am telling her that he would be arriving in Birmingham at 6pm that evening with his family. Howard Jones stated the interrogation allegedly started at 10.45am to 1.05pm.Richard's wife spoke to him by telephone at 10.57am, 11am, and 1pm during the interrogation.
His wife said that in their last conversation, Richard said he would call her back after the meeting had finished but never did. Richard's line manager was also interviewed at 1.30-2.30pm and called Richard at 1.18pm. He said that Richard said he would meet him back at his desk in 5 minutes but never turned up.
Richard's colleagues from Abbey National informed the family that it was highly suspicious and that Richard would not have taken his life. They gave witness statements to the police concerning senior directors and alleged corruption and these were never followed up by the police, CPS and the Coroner, Dr Anthony Reid.
At the time of his death, Chang was working on a project called Basel II. This was an international business standard that required financial institutions to maintain enough cash reserves to cover risks incurred by operations.
In 2001, the Government blocked Lloyds TSB's £18.2 billion takeover bid for rival Abbey National, saying the merger would be against the public interest.
In 2002, Abbey National was described as "a disgrace to Britain's savings industry. It may not be in the same league as Equitable Life, but it is not far off. Abbey has behaved in an irresponsible and cavalier fashion, lending money by the bucket-load to companies that have either gone bust, or look as if they might. Financial controls and risk management appear to have gone out of the window."
In 2003, Abbey National reported a £1 billion loss and the accounts showed an after-tax profit of £34 million yet an interim dividend of £76 million was paid!
Just 13 days after Chang died, Abbey National was taken over by Spain's biggest bank in a deal valued at £8 billion, some £11 billion less than was offered by Lloyds TSB two years previously.
During the interrogation of Chang, he admitted consulting the Sarbans-Oxley Act which deals with criminal penalties for altering of corporate documents.
Stephen Hester called in Kroll Associates. Hester began his career in 1982 with Credit Suisse. In 1996 he was appointed to the executive board. In May 2002 he joined Abbey National as Finance Director. He then went on to become Chief Operating Officer, a position he held until November 2004 when he was appointed Chief Executive of British Land.
Stephen Hester
Hester was appointed non-executive deputy chairman of the newly nationalised Northern Rock by Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling in March 2008, to take a non-executive position on the board of Royal Bank of Scotland. On 21 November 2008, he replaced Sir Fred Goodwin as Chief Executive of the RBS Group. Hester is paid an annual salary of £1.2 million by RBS. Alongside this, he took home £7.7m in bonus and pension payments.
Nathan Bostock was named in the anonymous document and was responsible for selecting Richard for interrogation. He was head of Abbey National Treasury Service when Richard died. Mr Nathan Bostock has been the Head of Restructuring & Risk at the Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc (RBS) since 1 June 2009, and is responsible for the risk and legal functions within it. Mr Bostock has been Chief Executive of wholesale at Lloyds Banking Group since 19 July 2011. He has vast experience in wholesale markets and a deep understanding of risk management.
Bostock served as Executive Director of Human Resources of Abbey National plc from January 2007 to 1 June 2009, and served as its Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director of Retail Products & Marketing and Credit Cards & Insurance from January 2007 until 1 June 2009.
Nathan Bostock
Mr Bostock served as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director of Retail Products & Marketing, HR, Credit Cards and Insurance of Alliance & Leicester plc, a subsidiary of Santander UK plc, from October 2008 to 1 June 2009. He served as Executive Director of Finance & Markets at Santander UK plc since 22 February 2005.
He joined Santander UK plc in November 2001 as Chief Operating Officer of Abbey National Treasury Services plc with responsibility for finance, market risk and operations. Prior to Santander, he served as Director of Group Risk Management and Chief Operating Officer, Treasury and Capital Markets at the Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc from 1992 to 2001. Mr Bostock served as the Head of Risk Analysis and Finance, Treasury and Interest Rate Derivatives (Europe) for Chase Manhattan Bank from 1988 to 1992.
He served with Chase Manhattan Bank since 1986, where he served in a variety of areas and functions. He previously worked with Coopers & Lybrand. Mr Bostock served as an Executive Director of Alliance &
Richard Chang's sisters and other family members campaign for the truth of his death to be made public
Leicester plc from October 2008 to 1 June 2009. He served as an Executive Director of Santander UK plc from 22 February 2005 to 1 June 2009.
Jacqueline Chang, the sister of Richard, summed up the situation in simple terms: "My brother did not commit suicide but was murdered by the State because of what he discovered."
In such suspicious circumstances, this paper concurs.
GIOVANNI DI STEFANO
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Monday, 14 November 2011
Murder in the City of London
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Saturday, 30 July 2011
Pandora’s Box – What happens when you expose massive fraud?
The Case of Richard Chang Part 3
Was Richard Murdered and were Kroll implicated?
I am deeply suspicious of events that took place the day that Richard Chang was aggressively interrogated by Kroll Security and the fact that having stood up to this long ordeal was then found dead at the bottom of the Atrium in the Abbey National HQ in London, having apparantely jumped to his death from the fifth floor.
Let’s just reflect again as to what Richard may have revealed and the location of this incident:
Many times when you are uncovering massive corporate fraud you expose yourself sometimes to ridicule and at other times to danger….such could have been the case with Richard Chang who may have exposed the wheeling and dealing within the original Abbey National Bank Empire situated at Number 2 Triton Square, Euston, London………that company was eventually taken over by Santander, a Spanish company.
The Abbey National Bank HQ in London was a substantial building of multi levels with an internal atrium. The picture below show the building after it was taken over by Santander.
Old Abbey National Building (Scene of the crime)
2 Triton Square , Euston, London
Luqman Arnold former head of Abbey National
Richard would have been aware of the many changes taking place right up to the takeover by Santander and would have been aware of a new upgrade of the computer system. It has been revealed that the company that was subcontracted to carry out the installation was being paid extremely well and yet the system had been criticised, by other third parties, as being sub standard and not actually capable of addressing the protection it was designed to cover.
There appears to be real cause for concern that Abbey National had succumbed to fraud prior to the takeover. From Santander’s point of view this was a very lucrative opportunity for the Spanish company to walk in and take over many city outlets and just change the external sign from Abbey to Santander. The other interesting observation is the fact that many of those in executive positions have moved on to other lucrative jobs and may well already be carrying out fraud in their new positions.
There are some issues that I find are more than just coincidence and I will now cover those issues:
Most Major Banks or Financial Houses have there own security staff and would normally investigate any possible internal fraud and then upon finding that fraud (which is a criminal offence), would hand the case over to the Police Fraud Office for further investigation………Having worked closely with the police I can assure you that this is normal practice……..in this case this was not done which would indicate that the Management of Abbey National may well have been involved in fraud……we will cover this aspect later.
The fact that Richard Chang was tricked into attending an interrogation without being offered a Union Representative or witness to be in attendance is strictly against bank protocol and certainly against Union Rules.
Having spent much time myself in Industrial First Aid and Ambulance I find it incredible that there was little blood at the scene of the body. If Richard was alive when he left the 5th Floor balcony there would have been excessive blood at the scene, especially the fact that his lobe had been badly fractured. It is my belief that Richard Chang was murdered within the building and that he was pushed over the balcony and that his blood circulation had in actual fact ceased as a direct result of is earlier murder.
We now understand that the management called in Kroll to carry out the interrogation of staff members and this immediately raised my own concerns knowing the background to this company. One expert refers to Kroll as aka CIA and were implicated in the 9/11 disaste……They have strong ties with Mossad and also just so happen to have extensive contracts with MI5, MI6 and the CIA as per their own announcement as per below. I have also been given confirmation from another high profile person that Kroll is CIA and that the above appears to be correct……so my question would be could it have been possible that MI5, CIA or Mossad were implicated……..after all in doing so they would be protecting their own and their financial fraud activities. The Director of Kroll made the following statement to confrim the above :
Michael G. Cherkasky, president and chief executive officer, said, “We are pleased to report record first quarter sales and operating income. Our performance was driven by continued strong growth in our Security Services business……….the definition of Security Services is described as follows:
Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in the United Kingdom, and the Central Intelligence Agency in the United States. It is also interesting to note that they are also contracted to Bank and Credit Card companies, Insurance and Consumer Finance companies, Stock Brokers, Investment Funds and some Government Enterprises………this total coverage would give Kroll incredible access to the workings of the financial sector and I am sure that Gordon Bowden ( who investigates possible fraud) would certainly have raised eyebrows over this company as I also have!!
I will reveal Kroll connections with 9/11 towards the end of this article.
Let’s now look at the major flaws that took place in the police investigation and the deeply suspect autopsy.
No one has challenged the cause of death even though the scene immediately after the fall was showing un characteristic signs………the gentleman that carried out the autopsy ( Dr. Freddie Patel) has in the past also been challenged on his findings. It should also be noted that the post mortem report described that on inspection, Richard had marks on his body…….why haven’t these marks been investigated?
Chang family support group
The Chang Family is sure that Dr. Freddie Patel did not do a thorough inspection and assessment. There has not been an independent forensic report done to date. The Coroner allowed inconclusive forensic evidence to be admitted at the Inquest.
I again repeat from my own extensive experience I find it hard to believe that if a person threw himself off a balcony in the way described there would certainly be excessive amounts of blood at the scene…….the fact that there was hardly any blood would indicate that he had been murdered at another location prior to going over the balcony ie his circulatory system had ceased. The other issue is what were these other marks on his body?
Why did the officer in charge of the inquiry accept the word of an ex senior police officer (Howard Jones )in his conclusion without obtaining the full details himself ie totally independent of someone that was involved with Kroll and could be considered a suspect? This is strictly against police protocol!
Why did the police investigators not obtain the original tape of the Richard Chang interview…….this again is strictly against police protocol!
Shortly after Richard died Abbey National plc was taken over by the Banco de Santander, a Spanish banking group. The Metropolitan Police only began taking witness statements from key witnesses on 21st July 2004. Howard Jones gave a brief witness statement on 29th July 2004 and Peter Pender-Cudlip did not give a witness statement until 3rd August 2004. Most of the people involved in selecting Richard and Vincent for interrogation had left Abbey. Some Abbey employees who gave witness statements to the police were ‘restructured’ out of a job. Priscilla Vacassin now works for Prudential Insurance and Luqman Arnold presently works for the FSA. Stephen Hester moved to British Land PLC and then RBSnd Peter Pender-Cudlip subsequently left Kroll and set up his own company called GWP. Lord Burns is chairman of both Abbey National Bank PLC and Marks and Spencer PLC.
Something strange going on here!! How come the IPCC have done nothing about this?
I came across an interesting article by David Noakes who in my opinion hit the nail on the head when he made the following statement:
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) went from assets of plus £88 billion in 1999 to estimated liabilities of minus £1.3 trillion in 2009 – equal to a year’s income (GDP) for the whole of Great Britain. If Directors with mental disabilities had been appointed, they might have reduced the bank’s value by half. But to utterly destroy it on so stupendous a scale took real knowledge and determination.
It seems clear the wholesale mismanagement and corruption of banks by their directors was not unbelievable incompetence, but criminal. The government huffs and puffs at bonuses and pensions paid as a reward for failure, but then in every case it lets those corrupt payments, totaling billions of pounds, stand without passing legislation to confiscate. It looks as though these huge bonuses and pensions were intentionally paid to compensate directors precisely for destroying their own banks, and for a job well done.
He went on to say the following regarding Abbey National:
But take the case of Abbey National. In July 2004 their risk management officer, Richard Chang, was objecting that the run down of the bank by directors was deliberate (it resulted in the Bank’s ownership being transferred to a European Bank, Santander.) The HBOS whistleblower alleged the same.
The courts, CPS, coroner, FSA, directors and police have closed ranks to prevent a criminal prosecution or investigation. These services all have large numbers of freemasons in their senior structures.
High ranking Freemasonry runs right through this banking crisis. All the failed banks, Northern Rock, Abbey, RBS, Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) had Freemasonry controlling their boards. Gordon Brown is a 33rd degree Scottish Rite Freemason, as was Tony Blair; there are 400,000 of them in Britain.
Gordon and I certainly agree with David Noakes, especially in regard to the Courts, Coroner, FSA, Directors and Police, especially the Serious Fraud Office…..we both have continuously exposed massive fraud with forensic evidence produced by Gordon Bowden and all information/evidence has been passed on to Politicians, Political Parties, Serious Fraud Office and the local police……they are so arrogant they do not even reply to the claims made and even refuse to take recorded statements under oath. Having said that we must fully understand that this goes well beyond what David Noakes has reported…….this is how the New World Order operates and how they fund their huge organization……they are answerable to no one!!
In conclusion one would assume that even had Richard written the report regarding fraud etc then one would assume that in any company the case would have been handed over to the police for further investigation….. obviously in this case there may have been fraud actually taking place and so the company decided to remove Richard and blame it on suicide. I did promise you a rundown of Kroll and the 9/11 disaster and as you can see its is not exactly a company that you would recommend to anyone.
It is important for the general public to stand behind the relatives of Richard Chang and insist that this case be re opened and a full and proper investigation takes place. It is imperative that the original police investigation team be called forward to be cross examined and especially Howard Jones the ex Policeman who relentlessly interrogated Richard Change.
I would further suggest that the Change family demand that this case be processed through the court system under Common Law Jurisdiction Jury (12) and allow true democracy to take place and let the jury decide who is telling the truth…….that is our constitutional right and we owe this to Richard Chang who had no reason whatsoever to commite suicide (in their words only)……..but then again how many people have left this world in very suspicious circumstances……to name but a few……Lady Diana, Dr. David Kelly, Robin Cook, Greater Manchester Police’s Chief Constable Michael Todd, Christopher Shale, head of Oxfordshire Conservative group (not such a close friend of Mr Cameron) and more recently Sean Hoare, a former News of the World employee who said Andy Coulson “encouraged” phone-hacking………as you can see when you expose anything potentially significant against the political elite your days are numbers………..I am sure Gordon Bowden and I are well up the same list!!
I encourage people to respond to this article or duplicate it and plaster it in any outlet possible……it is only by public involvement will the truth ever come out as a direct result of pressure by “People Power”
Oh by the way there is also a connection between Arlington Associates at 22 Arlington Street and Kroll……one of there Directors, ALDWIN J G WIGHT: ex SAS Commander 22 Squadron, Kroll Group, Commander OMAN Special Forces spent considerable time working for Kroll in Iraq which as you know was the place where billion of dollars just simply went missing.
However, there was another skeleton in the closet by the name of Mark Blagborough who fits in with Aldwin JG Wight perfectly……I have decided to let Gordon Bowden explain his activity in his own words:
Peter
I explained in the Pandora’s Box series the links to Conservative Party Political Scandals.
How, vis the web site of:
ARLINGTON ASSOCIATES LIMITED Companies House number 06481885
Only incorporated on 23 Jan 2008
that 2 of the directors were:
ex SAS Commanders
Aldwin J G Wight
and
Mark Blagborough
But by a slight variation to their names.
Mark Blagbrough is also a Director with Aldwin Wight of
ARTURUS Limited
and both
were past Senior Directors of KROLL SECURITY GROUP.
So, what professional business ethics and experience do Senior Directors of KROLL need to have.
Here’s what has not been published, the LINKS of KROLL, protecting the CONSERVATIVE PARTY Grandee funder’s.
The most damaging Conservative Party Political Scandal being their affiliation to LONRHO GROUP and the other directors being
Geoffrey White
and
Ambassador Frances Dee Cook
Both highlighted by the United Nations and the BBC in 2001 via
ORYX NATURAL RESOURCES
as funding “TERRORIST GROUPS” Covertly sponsoring and financing Zimbabwean Despot murderer (SIR) Robert Mugabe, his Military ZDF and directly involved in the networking of “BLOOD” Conflict Diamonds in return for Diamond, Cobalt, Coltan, Gold, Copper mining claims in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
The covert laundering and “CLEANING” of £billions of “Dirty” Cash from these International Organised Crime network deals can only be facilitated through Major UK BANKS and financial institutions.
Like I said, with a slight name variation, Mark Blagbrough is also linked to the BANK’s and IRAQ
he is a Senior Director of CULVER IRAQ, an insurance network of LLOYDS.
Dedicated professional Risk analysts like Richard Chang would have easily identified suspect trading cash transactions, both in and out of the Banks Corporate accounts.
If these Directors identities, their KROLL links and covert Arms Dealing Companies were exposed and made public, the damage to the BANKS credibility and Conservative Party would be catastrophic.
Gordon
So there you have it straight from the horses mouth. Howver, having no told you this what is likely to happen, absolutely nothing as our prime protection force known as the Serious Fraud Office and all the leaders and their parties are not interested!!!!!…….you you believe that…….that is why our country has disappeared down the toilet…..…….oh well business as usual folks!!
Peter Eyre – Middle East Consultant – 22/7/2011 www.eyreinternational.worpress.com
Was Richard Murdered and were Kroll implicated?
I am deeply suspicious of events that took place the day that Richard Chang was aggressively interrogated by Kroll Security and the fact that having stood up to this long ordeal was then found dead at the bottom of the Atrium in the Abbey National HQ in London, having apparantely jumped to his death from the fifth floor.
Let’s just reflect again as to what Richard may have revealed and the location of this incident:
Many times when you are uncovering massive corporate fraud you expose yourself sometimes to ridicule and at other times to danger….such could have been the case with Richard Chang who may have exposed the wheeling and dealing within the original Abbey National Bank Empire situated at Number 2 Triton Square, Euston, London………that company was eventually taken over by Santander, a Spanish company.
The Abbey National Bank HQ in London was a substantial building of multi levels with an internal atrium. The picture below show the building after it was taken over by Santander.
Old Abbey National Building (Scene of the crime)
2 Triton Square , Euston, London
Luqman Arnold former head of Abbey National
Richard would have been aware of the many changes taking place right up to the takeover by Santander and would have been aware of a new upgrade of the computer system. It has been revealed that the company that was subcontracted to carry out the installation was being paid extremely well and yet the system had been criticised, by other third parties, as being sub standard and not actually capable of addressing the protection it was designed to cover.
There appears to be real cause for concern that Abbey National had succumbed to fraud prior to the takeover. From Santander’s point of view this was a very lucrative opportunity for the Spanish company to walk in and take over many city outlets and just change the external sign from Abbey to Santander. The other interesting observation is the fact that many of those in executive positions have moved on to other lucrative jobs and may well already be carrying out fraud in their new positions.
There are some issues that I find are more than just coincidence and I will now cover those issues:
Most Major Banks or Financial Houses have there own security staff and would normally investigate any possible internal fraud and then upon finding that fraud (which is a criminal offence), would hand the case over to the Police Fraud Office for further investigation………Having worked closely with the police I can assure you that this is normal practice……..in this case this was not done which would indicate that the Management of Abbey National may well have been involved in fraud……we will cover this aspect later.
The fact that Richard Chang was tricked into attending an interrogation without being offered a Union Representative or witness to be in attendance is strictly against bank protocol and certainly against Union Rules.
Having spent much time myself in Industrial First Aid and Ambulance I find it incredible that there was little blood at the scene of the body. If Richard was alive when he left the 5th Floor balcony there would have been excessive blood at the scene, especially the fact that his lobe had been badly fractured. It is my belief that Richard Chang was murdered within the building and that he was pushed over the balcony and that his blood circulation had in actual fact ceased as a direct result of is earlier murder.
We now understand that the management called in Kroll to carry out the interrogation of staff members and this immediately raised my own concerns knowing the background to this company. One expert refers to Kroll as aka CIA and were implicated in the 9/11 disaste……They have strong ties with Mossad and also just so happen to have extensive contracts with MI5, MI6 and the CIA as per their own announcement as per below. I have also been given confirmation from another high profile person that Kroll is CIA and that the above appears to be correct……so my question would be could it have been possible that MI5, CIA or Mossad were implicated……..after all in doing so they would be protecting their own and their financial fraud activities. The Director of Kroll made the following statement to confrim the above :
Michael G. Cherkasky, president and chief executive officer, said, “We are pleased to report record first quarter sales and operating income. Our performance was driven by continued strong growth in our Security Services business……….the definition of Security Services is described as follows:
Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in the United Kingdom, and the Central Intelligence Agency in the United States. It is also interesting to note that they are also contracted to Bank and Credit Card companies, Insurance and Consumer Finance companies, Stock Brokers, Investment Funds and some Government Enterprises………this total coverage would give Kroll incredible access to the workings of the financial sector and I am sure that Gordon Bowden ( who investigates possible fraud) would certainly have raised eyebrows over this company as I also have!!
I will reveal Kroll connections with 9/11 towards the end of this article.
Let’s now look at the major flaws that took place in the police investigation and the deeply suspect autopsy.
No one has challenged the cause of death even though the scene immediately after the fall was showing un characteristic signs………the gentleman that carried out the autopsy ( Dr. Freddie Patel) has in the past also been challenged on his findings. It should also be noted that the post mortem report described that on inspection, Richard had marks on his body…….why haven’t these marks been investigated?
Chang family support group
The Chang Family is sure that Dr. Freddie Patel did not do a thorough inspection and assessment. There has not been an independent forensic report done to date. The Coroner allowed inconclusive forensic evidence to be admitted at the Inquest.
I again repeat from my own extensive experience I find it hard to believe that if a person threw himself off a balcony in the way described there would certainly be excessive amounts of blood at the scene…….the fact that there was hardly any blood would indicate that he had been murdered at another location prior to going over the balcony ie his circulatory system had ceased. The other issue is what were these other marks on his body?
Why did the officer in charge of the inquiry accept the word of an ex senior police officer (Howard Jones )in his conclusion without obtaining the full details himself ie totally independent of someone that was involved with Kroll and could be considered a suspect? This is strictly against police protocol!
Why did the police investigators not obtain the original tape of the Richard Chang interview…….this again is strictly against police protocol!
Shortly after Richard died Abbey National plc was taken over by the Banco de Santander, a Spanish banking group. The Metropolitan Police only began taking witness statements from key witnesses on 21st July 2004. Howard Jones gave a brief witness statement on 29th July 2004 and Peter Pender-Cudlip did not give a witness statement until 3rd August 2004. Most of the people involved in selecting Richard and Vincent for interrogation had left Abbey. Some Abbey employees who gave witness statements to the police were ‘restructured’ out of a job. Priscilla Vacassin now works for Prudential Insurance and Luqman Arnold presently works for the FSA. Stephen Hester moved to British Land PLC and then RBSnd Peter Pender-Cudlip subsequently left Kroll and set up his own company called GWP. Lord Burns is chairman of both Abbey National Bank PLC and Marks and Spencer PLC.
Something strange going on here!! How come the IPCC have done nothing about this?
I came across an interesting article by David Noakes who in my opinion hit the nail on the head when he made the following statement:
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) went from assets of plus £88 billion in 1999 to estimated liabilities of minus £1.3 trillion in 2009 – equal to a year’s income (GDP) for the whole of Great Britain. If Directors with mental disabilities had been appointed, they might have reduced the bank’s value by half. But to utterly destroy it on so stupendous a scale took real knowledge and determination.
It seems clear the wholesale mismanagement and corruption of banks by their directors was not unbelievable incompetence, but criminal. The government huffs and puffs at bonuses and pensions paid as a reward for failure, but then in every case it lets those corrupt payments, totaling billions of pounds, stand without passing legislation to confiscate. It looks as though these huge bonuses and pensions were intentionally paid to compensate directors precisely for destroying their own banks, and for a job well done.
He went on to say the following regarding Abbey National:
But take the case of Abbey National. In July 2004 their risk management officer, Richard Chang, was objecting that the run down of the bank by directors was deliberate (it resulted in the Bank’s ownership being transferred to a European Bank, Santander.) The HBOS whistleblower alleged the same.
The courts, CPS, coroner, FSA, directors and police have closed ranks to prevent a criminal prosecution or investigation. These services all have large numbers of freemasons in their senior structures.
High ranking Freemasonry runs right through this banking crisis. All the failed banks, Northern Rock, Abbey, RBS, Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) had Freemasonry controlling their boards. Gordon Brown is a 33rd degree Scottish Rite Freemason, as was Tony Blair; there are 400,000 of them in Britain.
Gordon and I certainly agree with David Noakes, especially in regard to the Courts, Coroner, FSA, Directors and Police, especially the Serious Fraud Office…..we both have continuously exposed massive fraud with forensic evidence produced by Gordon Bowden and all information/evidence has been passed on to Politicians, Political Parties, Serious Fraud Office and the local police……they are so arrogant they do not even reply to the claims made and even refuse to take recorded statements under oath. Having said that we must fully understand that this goes well beyond what David Noakes has reported…….this is how the New World Order operates and how they fund their huge organization……they are answerable to no one!!
In conclusion one would assume that even had Richard written the report regarding fraud etc then one would assume that in any company the case would have been handed over to the police for further investigation….. obviously in this case there may have been fraud actually taking place and so the company decided to remove Richard and blame it on suicide. I did promise you a rundown of Kroll and the 9/11 disaster and as you can see its is not exactly a company that you would recommend to anyone.
It is important for the general public to stand behind the relatives of Richard Chang and insist that this case be re opened and a full and proper investigation takes place. It is imperative that the original police investigation team be called forward to be cross examined and especially Howard Jones the ex Policeman who relentlessly interrogated Richard Change.
I would further suggest that the Change family demand that this case be processed through the court system under Common Law Jurisdiction Jury (12) and allow true democracy to take place and let the jury decide who is telling the truth…….that is our constitutional right and we owe this to Richard Chang who had no reason whatsoever to commite suicide (in their words only)……..but then again how many people have left this world in very suspicious circumstances……to name but a few……Lady Diana, Dr. David Kelly, Robin Cook, Greater Manchester Police’s Chief Constable Michael Todd, Christopher Shale, head of Oxfordshire Conservative group (not such a close friend of Mr Cameron) and more recently Sean Hoare, a former News of the World employee who said Andy Coulson “encouraged” phone-hacking………as you can see when you expose anything potentially significant against the political elite your days are numbers………..I am sure Gordon Bowden and I are well up the same list!!
I encourage people to respond to this article or duplicate it and plaster it in any outlet possible……it is only by public involvement will the truth ever come out as a direct result of pressure by “People Power”
Oh by the way there is also a connection between Arlington Associates at 22 Arlington Street and Kroll……one of there Directors, ALDWIN J G WIGHT: ex SAS Commander 22 Squadron, Kroll Group, Commander OMAN Special Forces spent considerable time working for Kroll in Iraq which as you know was the place where billion of dollars just simply went missing.
However, there was another skeleton in the closet by the name of Mark Blagborough who fits in with Aldwin JG Wight perfectly……I have decided to let Gordon Bowden explain his activity in his own words:
Peter
I explained in the Pandora’s Box series the links to Conservative Party Political Scandals.
How, vis the web site of:
ARLINGTON ASSOCIATES LIMITED Companies House number 06481885
Only incorporated on 23 Jan 2008
that 2 of the directors were:
ex SAS Commanders
Aldwin J G Wight
and
Mark Blagborough
But by a slight variation to their names.
Mark Blagbrough is also a Director with Aldwin Wight of
ARTURUS Limited
and both
were past Senior Directors of KROLL SECURITY GROUP.
So, what professional business ethics and experience do Senior Directors of KROLL need to have.
Here’s what has not been published, the LINKS of KROLL, protecting the CONSERVATIVE PARTY Grandee funder’s.
The most damaging Conservative Party Political Scandal being their affiliation to LONRHO GROUP and the other directors being
Geoffrey White
and
Ambassador Frances Dee Cook
Both highlighted by the United Nations and the BBC in 2001 via
ORYX NATURAL RESOURCES
as funding “TERRORIST GROUPS” Covertly sponsoring and financing Zimbabwean Despot murderer (SIR) Robert Mugabe, his Military ZDF and directly involved in the networking of “BLOOD” Conflict Diamonds in return for Diamond, Cobalt, Coltan, Gold, Copper mining claims in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
The covert laundering and “CLEANING” of £billions of “Dirty” Cash from these International Organised Crime network deals can only be facilitated through Major UK BANKS and financial institutions.
Like I said, with a slight name variation, Mark Blagbrough is also linked to the BANK’s and IRAQ
he is a Senior Director of CULVER IRAQ, an insurance network of LLOYDS.
Dedicated professional Risk analysts like Richard Chang would have easily identified suspect trading cash transactions, both in and out of the Banks Corporate accounts.
If these Directors identities, their KROLL links and covert Arms Dealing Companies were exposed and made public, the damage to the BANKS credibility and Conservative Party would be catastrophic.
Gordon
So there you have it straight from the horses mouth. Howver, having no told you this what is likely to happen, absolutely nothing as our prime protection force known as the Serious Fraud Office and all the leaders and their parties are not interested!!!!!…….you you believe that…….that is why our country has disappeared down the toilet…..…….oh well business as usual folks!!
Peter Eyre – Middle East Consultant – 22/7/2011 www.eyreinternational.worpress.com
Sunday, 19 June 2011
Pandora's Box - Pandora’s Box – What happens when you expose massive fraud?
The Case of Richard Chang Part 2
Does the New World Order actually exist? – You bet it does!!
Did you ever link the Masonic Lodge with this massive empire? – You should have!!
Ever wondered how this evil satanic empire obtains its money? – Its easy believe me!!
Many times when you are uncovering massive corporate fraud you expose yourself sometime to ridicule and at other times to danger….such could have been the case with Richard Chang who may have exposed the wheeling and dealing within the original Abbey National Bank Empire situated at Number 2 Triton Square, Euston, London………that company was eventually taken over by Santander, a Spanish company.
The Abbey National Bank HQ in London was a substantial building of multi levels with an internal atrium. The picture below show the building after it was taken over by Santander.
Old Abbey National Building (Scene of the crime)
2 Triton Square , Euston, London
Luqman Arnold former head of Abbey National
I have over the weekend been reading and listening to the interrogation of Richard Chang and I have to say that under the circumstance Richard stood his ground extremely well and despite the aggressive pursuit by Howard Jones it became clear that they certainly didn't gain anything from the exercise. To even imagine that this interrogation took place in a corporate office is beyond imagination and the senior management of Abbey National certainly have a case to answer.
Just to pick up where we left off in my last article it is clear that the police failed to carry out a proper investigation into the death of Richard Chang and took the word of an ex senior police officer. This obviously was deeply flawed and certainly is in breach of the Police Code of Conduct.......I again repeat what was said about this:
Richard’s sister, Valerie Chang spoke to Sergeant Neil Payne a few days after the death and asked why the police had not removed the digital device from Howard Jones immediately after Richard had died. He said that it was not necessary because Howard Jones was an ex-Detective Chief Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police. I think that Sgt Neil Payne and the Senior Investigation Officer, DS Martin Sloan should both be investigated by the IPCC on this issue alone.
In regard to the actual tape of the interrogation it would certainly appear to have been tampered with and again the IPCC should obtain the original tape, that is currently held by Howard Jones, and again analyze the tape to determine if in actual fact it was tampered with.
Chang family support group
We will now focus on the actual inquest into the death of Richard Chang.
Witness statements stated that there was hardly any blood on the floor and that it was odd. At the Coroner’s Inquest, St. Pancras Coroners’ Court, King’s Cross held in July 2005 and conducted by the Coroner, Dr. Andrew Scott-Reid, the medical forensic expert, Dr. Freddie Patel did not attend court to be cross -examined by legal representatives. The post mortem report described that on inspection, Richard had marks on his body.
The Chang Family is sure that Dr. Freddie Patel did not do a thorough inspection and assessment. There has not been an independent forensic report done to date. The Coroner allowed inconclusive forensic evidence to be admitted at the Inquest.
From my perspective I find it hard to believe that if a person threw himself off a balcony in the way described there would certainly be excessive amounts of blood at the scene.......the fact that there was hardly any blood would indicate that he had been murdered at another location prior to going over the balcony ie his circulatory system had ceased. The other issue is what were these other marks on his body?
Shortly after Richard died Abbey National plc was taken over by the Banco de Santander, a Spanish banking group. The Metropolitan Police only began taking witness statements from key witnesses on 21st July 2004. Howard Jones gave a brief witness statement on 29th July 2004 and Peter Pender-Cudlip did not give a witness statement until 3rd August 2004. Most of the people involved in selecting Richard and Vincent for interrogation had left Abbey. Some Abbey employees who gave witness statements to the police were ‘restructured’ out of a job. Priscilla Vacassin now works for Prudential Insurance and Luqman Arnold presently works for the FSA. Stephen Hester moved to British Land PLC and then RBSnd Peter Pender-Cudlip subsequently left Kroll and set up his own company called GWP. Lord Burns is chairman of both Abbey National Bank PLC and Marks and Spencer PLC.
Something strange going on here!! How come the IPCC have done nothing about this?
I came across an interesting article by David Noakes who in my opinion hit the nail on the head when he made the following statement:
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) went from assets of plus £88 billion in 1999 to estimated liabilities of minus £1.3 trillion in 2009 – equal to a year’s income (GDP) for the whole of Great Britain. If Directors with mental disabilities had been appointed, they might have reduced the bank’s value by half. But to utterly destroy it on so stupendous a scale took real knowledge and determination.
It seems clear the wholesale mismanagement and corruption of banks by their directors was not unbelievable incompetence, but criminal. The government huffs and puffs at bonuses and pensions paid as a reward for failure, but then in every case it lets those corrupt payments, totaling billions of pounds, stand without passing legislation to confiscate. It looks as though these huge bonuses and pensions were intentionally paid to compensate directors precisely for destroying their own banks, and for a job well done.
He went on to say the following regarding Abbey National:
But take the case of Abbey National. In July 2004 their risk management officer, Richard Chang, was objecting that the run down of the bank by directors was deliberate (it resulted in the Bank’s ownership being transferred to a European Bank, Santander.) The HBOS whistleblower alleged the same.
The courts, CPS, coroner, FSA, directors and police have closed ranks to prevent a criminal prosecution or investigation. These services all have large numbers of freemasons in their senior structures.
High ranking Freemasonry runs right through this banking crisis. All the failed banks, Northern Rock, Abbey, RBS, Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) had Freemasonry controlling their boards. Gordon Brown is a 33rd degree Scottish Rite Freemason, as was Tony Blair; there are 400,000 of them in Britain.
Gordon and I certainly agree with David Noakes, especially in regard to the Courts, Coroner, FSA, Directors and Police…..we both have continuously exposed massive fraud with forensic evidence produced by Gordon Bowden and all information/evidence has been passed on to Politicians, Political Parties, Serious Fraud Office and the local police……they are so arrogant they do not even reply to the claims made and even refuse to take recorded statements under oath. Having said that we must fully understand that this goes well beyond what David Noakes has reported…….this is how the New World Order operates and how they fund their huge organization……they are answerable to no one!!
In conclusion one would assume that even had Richard written the report regarding fraud etc then one would assume that in any company the case would have been handed over to the police for further investigation..... Obviously in this case there may have been fraud actually taking place and so the company decided to remove Richard and blame it on suicide.
It is hoped by the time we come to Part 3 of Richards tragic story we will have proof that Abbey National and there senior management were doing some insider trading deals and also asset stripping so stay tuned for the next part.
Peter Eyre – Middle East Consultant – 13/6/2011
www.eyreinternational.worpress.com
Does the New World Order actually exist? – You bet it does!!
Did you ever link the Masonic Lodge with this massive empire? – You should have!!
Ever wondered how this evil satanic empire obtains its money? – Its easy believe me!!
Many times when you are uncovering massive corporate fraud you expose yourself sometime to ridicule and at other times to danger….such could have been the case with Richard Chang who may have exposed the wheeling and dealing within the original Abbey National Bank Empire situated at Number 2 Triton Square, Euston, London………that company was eventually taken over by Santander, a Spanish company.
The Abbey National Bank HQ in London was a substantial building of multi levels with an internal atrium. The picture below show the building after it was taken over by Santander.
Old Abbey National Building (Scene of the crime)
2 Triton Square , Euston, London
Luqman Arnold former head of Abbey National
I have over the weekend been reading and listening to the interrogation of Richard Chang and I have to say that under the circumstance Richard stood his ground extremely well and despite the aggressive pursuit by Howard Jones it became clear that they certainly didn't gain anything from the exercise. To even imagine that this interrogation took place in a corporate office is beyond imagination and the senior management of Abbey National certainly have a case to answer.
Just to pick up where we left off in my last article it is clear that the police failed to carry out a proper investigation into the death of Richard Chang and took the word of an ex senior police officer. This obviously was deeply flawed and certainly is in breach of the Police Code of Conduct.......I again repeat what was said about this:
Richard’s sister, Valerie Chang spoke to Sergeant Neil Payne a few days after the death and asked why the police had not removed the digital device from Howard Jones immediately after Richard had died. He said that it was not necessary because Howard Jones was an ex-Detective Chief Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police. I think that Sgt Neil Payne and the Senior Investigation Officer, DS Martin Sloan should both be investigated by the IPCC on this issue alone.
In regard to the actual tape of the interrogation it would certainly appear to have been tampered with and again the IPCC should obtain the original tape, that is currently held by Howard Jones, and again analyze the tape to determine if in actual fact it was tampered with.
Chang family support group
We will now focus on the actual inquest into the death of Richard Chang.
Witness statements stated that there was hardly any blood on the floor and that it was odd. At the Coroner’s Inquest, St. Pancras Coroners’ Court, King’s Cross held in July 2005 and conducted by the Coroner, Dr. Andrew Scott-Reid, the medical forensic expert, Dr. Freddie Patel did not attend court to be cross -examined by legal representatives. The post mortem report described that on inspection, Richard had marks on his body.
The Chang Family is sure that Dr. Freddie Patel did not do a thorough inspection and assessment. There has not been an independent forensic report done to date. The Coroner allowed inconclusive forensic evidence to be admitted at the Inquest.
From my perspective I find it hard to believe that if a person threw himself off a balcony in the way described there would certainly be excessive amounts of blood at the scene.......the fact that there was hardly any blood would indicate that he had been murdered at another location prior to going over the balcony ie his circulatory system had ceased. The other issue is what were these other marks on his body?
Shortly after Richard died Abbey National plc was taken over by the Banco de Santander, a Spanish banking group. The Metropolitan Police only began taking witness statements from key witnesses on 21st July 2004. Howard Jones gave a brief witness statement on 29th July 2004 and Peter Pender-Cudlip did not give a witness statement until 3rd August 2004. Most of the people involved in selecting Richard and Vincent for interrogation had left Abbey. Some Abbey employees who gave witness statements to the police were ‘restructured’ out of a job. Priscilla Vacassin now works for Prudential Insurance and Luqman Arnold presently works for the FSA. Stephen Hester moved to British Land PLC and then RBSnd Peter Pender-Cudlip subsequently left Kroll and set up his own company called GWP. Lord Burns is chairman of both Abbey National Bank PLC and Marks and Spencer PLC.
Something strange going on here!! How come the IPCC have done nothing about this?
I came across an interesting article by David Noakes who in my opinion hit the nail on the head when he made the following statement:
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) went from assets of plus £88 billion in 1999 to estimated liabilities of minus £1.3 trillion in 2009 – equal to a year’s income (GDP) for the whole of Great Britain. If Directors with mental disabilities had been appointed, they might have reduced the bank’s value by half. But to utterly destroy it on so stupendous a scale took real knowledge and determination.
It seems clear the wholesale mismanagement and corruption of banks by their directors was not unbelievable incompetence, but criminal. The government huffs and puffs at bonuses and pensions paid as a reward for failure, but then in every case it lets those corrupt payments, totaling billions of pounds, stand without passing legislation to confiscate. It looks as though these huge bonuses and pensions were intentionally paid to compensate directors precisely for destroying their own banks, and for a job well done.
He went on to say the following regarding Abbey National:
But take the case of Abbey National. In July 2004 their risk management officer, Richard Chang, was objecting that the run down of the bank by directors was deliberate (it resulted in the Bank’s ownership being transferred to a European Bank, Santander.) The HBOS whistleblower alleged the same.
The courts, CPS, coroner, FSA, directors and police have closed ranks to prevent a criminal prosecution or investigation. These services all have large numbers of freemasons in their senior structures.
High ranking Freemasonry runs right through this banking crisis. All the failed banks, Northern Rock, Abbey, RBS, Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) had Freemasonry controlling their boards. Gordon Brown is a 33rd degree Scottish Rite Freemason, as was Tony Blair; there are 400,000 of them in Britain.
Gordon and I certainly agree with David Noakes, especially in regard to the Courts, Coroner, FSA, Directors and Police…..we both have continuously exposed massive fraud with forensic evidence produced by Gordon Bowden and all information/evidence has been passed on to Politicians, Political Parties, Serious Fraud Office and the local police……they are so arrogant they do not even reply to the claims made and even refuse to take recorded statements under oath. Having said that we must fully understand that this goes well beyond what David Noakes has reported…….this is how the New World Order operates and how they fund their huge organization……they are answerable to no one!!
In conclusion one would assume that even had Richard written the report regarding fraud etc then one would assume that in any company the case would have been handed over to the police for further investigation..... Obviously in this case there may have been fraud actually taking place and so the company decided to remove Richard and blame it on suicide.
It is hoped by the time we come to Part 3 of Richards tragic story we will have proof that Abbey National and there senior management were doing some insider trading deals and also asset stripping so stay tuned for the next part.
Peter Eyre – Middle East Consultant – 13/6/2011
www.eyreinternational.worpress.com
Sunday, 5 June 2011
Pandora's Box - Pandora’s Box – What happens when you expose massive fraud?
Pandora's Box - Pandora’s Box – What happens when you expose massive fraud?
The Case of Richard Chang Part 1
Does the New World Order actually exist? – You bet it does!!
Did you ever link the Masonic Lodge with this massive empire? – You should have!!
Ever wondered how this evil satanic empire obtains its money? – Its easy believe me!!
As Gordon and I continue to expose the organization that intentionally collapsed the world economy we do, from time to time, turn up the heat and why not because devils really do like to keep warm don’t they?
Many times when you are uncovering massive corporate fraud you expose yourself sometime to ridicule and at other times to danger….such could have been the case with Richard Chang who may have exposed the wheeling and dealing within the original Abbey National Bank Empire situated at Number 2 Triton Square, Euston, London………that company was eventually taken over by Santander, a Spanish company.
One has to understand that in order for the New World Order to survive it needs to syphon off huge sums of money by creating virtual or shell companies. Places like Lonrho Plc situated on the 2nd Floor, 25 Berkeley Square, London have a boiler room full of fraudulent activities and believe me they do it with such ease.
David Lenigas Lonrho
Can you imagine for instance someone getting a spade, digging a small hole in the ground, pop up a large tin shed, surround it with a security fence, erect a nice new sign to show this huge open pit copper mine or whatever and then finally place a couple of rough looking armed security guards and you have the making of a virtual company.
Then you create a nice new video showing your activity around the world with a couple of new trucks, a drill rig and lots of false out of date data and maps and you are ready to start your world tour to raise money for the project or phase.
You then invite lots of investors and a few little old ladies, wine and dine them and then show them your elaborate presentation before they finally succumb to your charm and hand over their hard earned money………..what they do not know is that from that moment their money has gone forever……..you then take the $6 billion or whatever and distribute it around the many directors (they have no employees) of your fake company who then distribute it via their other fake outlets so that its well and truly hidden.
Finally over the next 5 years you have to play your investors along and tell them things are looking good and you are carrying out exploration etc………then during year 2 you give them another update that things are looking good for production………then in year 3 you have a few setbacks such has torrential rain in the Congo or maybe a bit of the ongoing conflict has caused you a few setbacks……then in year 4 its getting worse and the exploration findings are not showing the yield you were expecting and by year 5….sorry folks the political situation and the current price of copper has caused us to pull out of the project as its no longer viable and the company closes down…….what you don’t know is that they re start the entire exercise all over again and rip another batch of investors off.
Before trying to understand how massive corporate fraud operates and how they are connected to the banks and many political figures we have to watch the following video which will act as a template for you all to better understand what is going on in all our respective countries:
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2008/20080602_bad_company/interviews.htm
OK with that out the way lets just get back to the main purpose of this story which is to reveal the fate of one such possible whistleblower, who just may have come across the fact that his company, Abbey National Bank, were carrying out massive fraud.
Maybe Richard Chang didn’t realize that because he was conscientious and because he was good at his job he just may have uncovered something that would eventually lead to his tragic death.
So who was Richard Chang:
Richard Chang was born on 8th December 1956 in Kampala , Uganda and grew up in England from the age of 7 years. He was married and was the father of two young children. He was a high achiever with a Degree in Polymer Science from Manchester University and an MBA from London University . He was well spoken, articulate and his first language was English.
Richard Chang worked at the Abbey National Bank PLC (Head Office)(“Abbey”) based at Triton Square , Euston, London . His role was that of a senior IT Risk Analyst and he commenced working in this specialty from 2002 onwards. He was working on a system known as the BASEL II corporate banking governance project. (Very concisely, BASEL II is the successor to BASEL I, originally set up by Peter Cooke, a Director of the Bank of England to enable central banks to assess lending and liability portfolios for the commercial banks it supervised. The system expanded to be applied by other central banks, internationally). Richard and his line manager, Vincent Santeng, were the only personnel at Abbey working on this project.
Richard gave his notice of resignation from Abbey on 2nd July 2007. This was so that he would begin work at the Royal Bank of Scotland on 2nd August 2004. However, on the 13th July 2004 shortly following a two hour interrogation by two operatives of Kroll Associates (“Kroll”), a private corporate intelligence and investigations’ company, Richard was found dead at almost 13.45pm on the ground floor atrium. It is said that he tragically fell from the fifth floor balcony inside the atrium of Abbey’s head office. In the interrogation, he was accused of writing and sending malicious anonymous documents to the Financial Services Authority (“FSA”) and senior directors of Abbey. The anonymous documents are said to have contained allegations of fraudulent malpractice at Abbey by senior directors. Ex-employees who worked closely with Richard at Abbey are of the opinion that the circumstances of his death are highly suspicious.
What I find an amazing coincidence is the fact that if he had uncovered fraud he was just about to join another company that was also rife with fraud at the time, the Royal Bank of Scotland.
Family and friends of Richard are convinced that this certainly was not a case of suicide and that his life ended after his cross examination by Kroll under very suspicious circumstances.
Before continuing with this story lets just give another example of one other location like Lonrho’s who also specialises in massive corporate fraud and who also operates a substantial boiler room of virtual/shell companies……the company is Arlington Associates and they are situated at 25 Arlington Street which is attached to the Ritz Hotel in London…..how convenient don’t you think?.......when you are ripping off the system its nice to pop in next door and enjoy the luxuries of life…….one should ask Tony Blair how good life can be as he his a regular participant in this world of deceit.
What I find ironic about this location is the fact that once some men dressed in a trilby, trench coats and very dark sunglasses carried out a raid there and yet this empire of massive fraud still continues doing what it does best……..taking your money…..no doubt it’s ring leader ex Ambassador Frances D Cook is still sleeping on a mattress of green back’s and also pushing over the pond the weapons that are manufactured by her other company ATK.
Maybe next time there is a march in London the crowds may just find this out of the way location……..they came close on the last rally when they targeted the Ritz…..in actual fact a group actually headed down the street to the left (Arlington Street) but obviously didn’t notice this boiler room that helped cause our economic decline…..oh well better luck next time hey?
Frances D Cook
Above you will see the directors of this illustrious company some of whom are ex SAS members, which appears to be a benchmark in qualifying for such a high status…..at the end of the day when you are ripping off the system you also need to protect your interests in whatever way required……..the same goes for Kroll Associates, a private corporate intelligence and investigation company to whom poor Richard Chang is alleged to have fallen victim too.
Now back to the Richard Chang story:
It is very clear that Richard, in his position as Senior IT Risk Analyst, would have been privy to some extremely sensitive information regarding the affairs of the Abbey National Bank. Richard, being a person with a pretty good IQ, would probably have also come across some irregularities within the bank, especially the possibility of fraud at director level and accordingly if this was the case would have been considered a high risk person by some members of the board. The very fact that he could well have uncovered something significant and that he was soon to leave for another job could have led to his death……what Richard didn’t understand was that he was about to join a much larger organization, The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), which also appeared rife with fraud at director level. It could have even been possible that there was some collusion between Abbey & the RBS regarding Richard Chang as it is normal for banks to have a cross check system on security issues etc and could have profiled him.
The main issue here is why did Richard suddenly become a target for the bank whilst he was serving his notice, why was his interrogation so aggressive and why would he have committed suicide when he had so much to live for……….from my perspective I find the basics of the case deeply suspicious and certainly there is a case to answer…..so lets now look at the events on that day.
The Abbey National Bank HQ in London is a substantial building of multi levels with an internal atrium. The picture below show the building after it was taken over by Santander.
Old Abbey National Building (Scene of the crime) 2 Triton Square , Euston, London
The day started normally for Richard and he had even made arrangement to meet up with family members later on in the day but what he didn’t realize on the day that they had hood winked him into attending a routine meeting that was not a meeting at all but a very privately arranged interrogation of Richard by Kroll Security. No one was allowed to sit in with him during this time. This in itself his totally out of order because Richard was a member of the union and it is normal for a union rep to be present. On could also clearly see that this was a breach of Human Rights and whatever the final verdict Abbey certainly has a case to answer.
The Guardian put Richards situation into perspective when they said:
Richard Chang didn't know he was being watched. He didn't know his employer had hired investigators to access employees' PCs and take fingerprints from glass water bottles around the office. He didn't know there were linguistics experts dissecting the grammar in every memo, email and letter. He didn't know he was on a list of 600 "suspects". And he didn't know that when he was called to what he thought was a routine Tuesday meeting he would spend the next two and a half hours being interviewed.
It is clear that this interview actually turned into a high pressure interrogation which I was about to find out when I listened to the taped transcript (which incidentally had been doctored). However I will get back to the interrogation later and now discuss some of the key players in this massive cover-up and also list the directors of the Abbey National Bank.
You will all find as we dig deeper into this tragic case at Abbey that some of the directors certainly were and still are implicated in massive fraud so let’s just divert our thoughts into what was possibly going on at number two Triton Square, Euston.
Luqman Arnold
The director of Abbey was Luqman Arnold and during his time in office was believed to be asset stripping the accounts at Abbey as were other directors. It was when the toxic assets increased that Arnold decided to sell the Abbey to Santander, a Spanish company……what was rather strange was the fact that Arnold stayed on after the Santander takeover and managed to secure himself a position as a consultant…….I guess one could possible believe that its better to know the devil you know than the devil you don’t!!
The banking sector and the Financial Times sometimes referred to him as “Lucky” or the Saviour but believe me there was no luck for those that fell under his spell or those that lost money whilst on his watch.
One statement referred to him as follows: Luqman Arnold makes an unlikely saviour of Britain's high street banks. Five years ago it was Abbey. Now he hopes to turn his healing hands to the crippled Northern Rock…etc
Arnolds CV reads as follows:
First National Bank in Dallas 1972-76,
Manufacturers Hanover Corporation 1976-82
Head of Investment Banking origination Credi Suesse First Boston 1982-92
Research Sabbatical 1992-93
Member Exec Committee and Bd Banque Paribas 1993-96
Group Exec Bd and President UBS AG 1996-2001
Chief Exec Abbey National plc 2002-2004
Senior Advisor to Chairman Grupo Santander 2004-06
Chairman Olivant Advisers Ltd 2006 –
Chairman Design Museum 2005-
One can clearly see that whichever way you turn the banks are up to their neck in corporate fraud and even offer unsecured loans to non existent oil and mining projects that then becomes a toxic debt…….oh well what difference does it make they just ask the government to bail them out and pass it on to the tax payer.
I can assure you that when I write the next article it will open up an extremely large hornet’s nest of fraud and corruption but in the meantime lets again get back to Richard’s tragic story.
There is no doubt whatsoever that in his position as a Senior IT Risk Analyst with the Abbey he would have uncovered something that would lead to his demise and it would be clear to anyone with an ounce of intelligence that the fraudulent senior staff members of the Abbey would have arranged for his removal.
Lets now look Richards death in more detail with the following details that were sent to me by a member of the family:
The Interrogation
Abbey management confirmed that on 13th July 2004, Richard was taken to a ground floor meeting room, where he was secretly taped by Kroll. There is in existence a copy of the recording and transcript of the interrogation which gives evidence that Richard was bullied, heckled and victimized during the session by the two operatives, Howard Jones (a former Metropolitan Police Detective Chief Superintendent and Peter Pender-Cudlip, a Solicitor and Kroll Director) of Kroll. At the Coroner’s Inquest (18th -20th July 2005), Richard’s line manager who was also interrogated by Kroll, following after Richard’s interrogation, confirmed that the recording of his interrogation had been edited. The Chang Family has strong reason to believe that the recording of Richard’s interrogation has also been heavily edited. Howard Jones admitted in a witness statement to the Inquest that he had tampered with the original recording by downloading it from his MP3 player onto the hard drive of his computer. He made a CD copy of the digital recording of the interrogation which he handed to the Metropolitan Police on the 29th July 2004. That is, 15 days after Richard had died. The Metropolitan Police took another week to transfer it on to audio tape.
Chang family support group
So what happened and who was responsible for initiating the investigation and interrogation?
On 13th July 2004, Richard was deceived (by his own department manager) into attending a BASEL II project meeting on his own which subsequently turned into a two and a half hour interrogation by Kroll Associates, conducted by Howard Jones, an ex-Detective Chief Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police and Peter Pender-Cudlip, a city lawyer. The interrogation was authorized by Abbey Management Directors. It was instigated by Luqman Arnold, CEO. Karen Fortunato, Company Secretary, Stephen Hester, Priscilla Vacassin, Human Resources director and Richard Carr, Interim Human Resources Director, Nathan Bostock, Head of Treasury, Nigel Walder (Button Wood Tree Consultancy-working within Abbey), Mark Jackson, IT manager, John Hasson, Ryan Brosnahan were involved in the investigation.
What was unethical (and suspicious) about the investigation conducted by Abbey’s Management?
Prior to the interrogation on 13th July 2004, Abbey’s Management, embarked on an investigation to determine who wrote the anonymous documents. The directors allege during the investigation they identified 40 possible suspects. In the RR65 race questionnaire, it was admitted that, out of the 40 suspects, Richard and his line manager (Nigerian origin) were the only non-whites. They allegedly devised a matrix system to identify suspects. The matrix has not been disclosed to the family notwithstanding albeit repeated requests to Abbey and the Metropolitan Police. Nathan Bostock decided very early on before the main investigation had begun that Richard Chang (Chinese) and his immediate line manager Vincent Santeng (Black) were co-authors of the anonymous documents i.e. pre-selection cannot be ruled out. Abbey allege that finger prints were secretly taken from drinking glasses using white gloves, from envelopes containing the anonymous documents as well as Richard’s personnel files. Richard Carr (Human Resources director) and Mark Jackson (Richard and Vincent’s IT manager) were allegedly instructed to take samples of Richard’s finger prints (using white gloves) without his consent ostensibly from drinking glasses after an appraisal meeting. Evidence shows that the results of the fingerprinting were inconclusive. When fingerprinting is used to identify an individual it is vital that a high degree of skill is exercised because the potential for error is high. It is important that all factors which would create any bias are eliminated (see Shirley McKie v Strathclyde Police).
The Chang Family has never been shown any evidence which proves Richard wrote the anonymous documents. The Chang Family maintains that Abbey has no evidence at all to prove that Richard wrote the anonymous documents. Richard’s line manager, after taking an employment action against Abbey, was cleared of all wrong-doing in respect of Abbey, who had originally accused both Richard and his line manager of writing the anonymous documents.
Who was responsible for allowing Richard to go in to the interrogation unattended?
The directors of Abbey management authorized the interrogation. Witness statements show that Robin Parkinson, Abbey’s in-house solicitor was consulted by Richard Carr and approved that the interrogations could take place without the presence of a trade union representative – or anyone else. Parkinson allowed Richard to be deceived on the false premise that Richard was a threat to IT security. Vincent Santeng stated at the Coroner’s Inquest that Richard could not have been a threat to IT security. Robin Parkinson’s line manager at the material time was Karen Fortunato. She is the Company Secretary for Abbey. Robin Parkinson commenced employment with Abbey on 5th July 2004 which was just 7 days before Richard died.
Why was this wrong?
An ex- employee of Abbey and a Trade Union representative who worked for Abbey for 16 years was approached by the interim Director of HR, Richard Carr to seek his advice. Richard Carr and Abbey Management in general chose to ignore his advice which was that there should always be a representative in such a meeting and that there was a written protocol that stated this. At a pre-hearing review in July 2006 the ex-Abbey employee said that he believed Richard was ‘ambushed’ and would probably still be alive today if he had been accompanied.
At a pre-hearing tribunal employment case against Abbey in July 2006, the ex-employee of Abbey emphasized that he had advised the Human Resources (“HR”) Director that anyone being interviewed should be accompanied by a member of the trade union. He stated that Richard was a member of the trade union. He re-iterated on more than one occasion that he was concerned that someone would be mistreated by Abbey. He also conferred with his line manager about the HR Director not taking his advice that there should be a trade union representative to accompany Richard Chang. He also mentioned that under the chairmanship of Lord Burns, this ‘new set of directors’ “would do as they please and no matter what information was given, they would not follow.”
Conduct of the Kroll Agents
In the interrogation, the Kroll agents accused Richard in tandem with Vincent Santeng of being the co-authors of the anonymous documents supposedly sent to the FSA and to Abbey, alleging financial corruption, fraud and sexual impropriety by named directors, Luqman Arnold, Nathan Bostock, Nigel Walder and Nick Riley. At the interrogation, Howard Jones made comments to the effect that he was accusing Richard of being one of the authors of the anonymous documents. Abbey believed that there was more than one author and that the first language of the originator(s) was not English. Richard therefore could not have been the author because his first language was English. Howard Jones and Peter Pender-Cudlip, the two Kroll agents, heckled, bullied and intimidated Richard in a degrading and hostile manner.
Howard Jones subjected Richard to continual and aggressive harassment in a futile attempt to get him to admit to writing (or being a significant contributor to) the authorship of the anonymous documents. Richard never admitted (at any time) that he wrote (or contributed to) any of the documents. Richard was put under psychological pressure whilst being detained in the interrogation room for two and a half hours without any intermission and he finally had to insist that they allow him go for a natural break since he was also hungry. The interrogation was racially discriminatory, personally degrading and hostile.
The Chang family previously issued a race questionnaire (“RR65”) to Abbey and Kroll. It is apparent from Abbey’s response that there are racial implications connected with their response i.e. out of the 40 suspects selected only Richard and his line manager were the only non-white. A matrix system (not shown at all to the Chang Family) by Abbey management was used.
What else was illegal and unethical?
Howard Jones secretly recorded the interrogation using a digital device hidden in a brief case without Richard’s consent. Richard’s line manager (on oath) stated at the Coroner’s Inquest that parts of the recording of the interrogation had been edited removing evidence relating to bullying, harassment and race.
Nathan Bostock was one of the named directors in the anonymous documents. Abbey’s internal management alleges that they investigated whether or not there was any substance to the contents of the anonymous documents and (ostensibly) subsequently found that there were none. Immediately following this ‘finding’, Nathan Bostock was assigned to head the investigation into the authorship of the anonymous documents.
The Metropolitan police conducted a flawed investigation
Richard’s line manager, Vincent Santeng, who was also interrogated by Kroll just before Richard died, alerted the police on the day that the circumstances relating to Richard’s death were suspicious. He is reported to have said “They’ve killed him”. The Senior Investigation Officer, Detective Sergeant Martin Sloan, from Holborn Police Station, after talking to Howard Jones (an ex-Detective Chief Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police), Nathan Bostock and Mark Jackson concluded on the next day that the death was a suicide and was not suspicious.
Richard’s sister, Valerie Chang spoke to Sergeant Neil Payne a few days after the death and asked why the police had not removed the digital device from Howard Jones immediately after Richard had died. He said that it was not necessary because Howard Jones was an ex-Detective Chief Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police. The handwritten note addressed to Howard Jones has been forensically tested by the Police. The results were that the signature was inconclusive. There are evidential inconsistencies as to where the note was actually found.
Having worked in association with Intel at NATO HQ and having worked at a Police Operation Centre I can assure you that the comments made by Sgt Neil Payne regarding the digital device held by Howard Jones were not normal police protocol. There was also a fundamental mistake made by The Senior Investigaton Officer, DS Martin Sloan when he had taken and accepted the word of an ex cop (ex DCS of the Metropolitan Police -Howard Jones) and concluded that the death was suicide before a full investigations, forensic sweep of the building and before the full autopsy results were known……this again was a non standard flaw by those involved and certainly should qualify for the case to be re opened.
Regarding the Police Investigation - I have observed gross violations of normal police procedures here, especially when they accepted the word of a non serving member. It is of my opinion that what happened on that day and how the investigation was conducted certainly qualifies for an inquiry by the IPCC.
Regarding Abbey Nation - There is also a clear case against the company in relation to a violation of basic human rights in the way Richard Chang was treated. Senior members of staff at the time should be pulled back in for further investigation on this matter and charged. There is also the case of fraudulent activity taking place at a very high level and in this context the senior members of staff should be investigation by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and charges made if appropriate.
There are many more interesting findings which I will discuss in Part 2 of the Richard Chang Story as well as revealing the possibility of massive fraud which is interconnected to other fraudulent webs that once again just so happen to link in with 22 Arlington Street, London.
One thing I can assure the Chang Family is that Richard’s death will not be in vain…..this man obviously knew too much and now Gordon and I know what that may have been up too……Richard may have been the sacrificial lamb but one thing for sure….the perpetrators who planned and carried out his death will truly regret their actions because we will not only look for justice and bring those responsible to court but we will also shake the very foundation of the other scumbags who continue to rape the corporate and banking sectors of this country.
I believe that after this exposure the police and those involved will themselves look for a scapegoat and offer one of their own to become their sacrificial lamb rather than risk continues media exposure of their fraudulent and corrupt empire………Gordon and I would certainly ask for a focus to be placed on the ex cop Howard Jones who could well turn out to be that lamb!!
What I find incredibly sad is an assessment that was carried out on the system that had been pushed into the Abbey and become one of Richard’s projects. The report stated the following:
A set of capital adequacy standards for international banks drawn up by a committee of G-10 supervisors – is essential if we are to avoid another financial crisis. This paper argues that this conclusion is false: Basel II is not the solution to the crisis, but instead an underlying cause of it. I ask why Basel II’s creators fell so short of their aim of improving the safety of the international banking system…….Basel II failed and its replacement Basel III is also doomed to failure. Richard was working on this failed system and I am sure he was probably aware that this upgrade was also a total waste of money for a company that was struggling to stay afloat, especially that the CEO was intending to sell the company to Santander anyway!!.
Mmmmmm something strange going on here!!.......Must ask Howard Jones more questions!!
Watch this space for more in depth details of Richard’s interrogation, autopsy and strong ties to Temple Church etc as well as how these directors have all moved on to continue the same line of work……you will be very surprised just how well Gordon Bowden has linked the spiders web to the same pile of crooks we have been talking about for a very long time………as you know my site is continuously attacked by the political elite but Gordon and I remain strong and continue to pump the information out.
Peter Eyre – Middle East Consultant – 5/6/2011 www.eyreinternational.worpress.com
The Case of Richard Chang Part 1
Does the New World Order actually exist? – You bet it does!!
Did you ever link the Masonic Lodge with this massive empire? – You should have!!
Ever wondered how this evil satanic empire obtains its money? – Its easy believe me!!
As Gordon and I continue to expose the organization that intentionally collapsed the world economy we do, from time to time, turn up the heat and why not because devils really do like to keep warm don’t they?
Many times when you are uncovering massive corporate fraud you expose yourself sometime to ridicule and at other times to danger….such could have been the case with Richard Chang who may have exposed the wheeling and dealing within the original Abbey National Bank Empire situated at Number 2 Triton Square, Euston, London………that company was eventually taken over by Santander, a Spanish company.
One has to understand that in order for the New World Order to survive it needs to syphon off huge sums of money by creating virtual or shell companies. Places like Lonrho Plc situated on the 2nd Floor, 25 Berkeley Square, London have a boiler room full of fraudulent activities and believe me they do it with such ease.
David Lenigas Lonrho
Can you imagine for instance someone getting a spade, digging a small hole in the ground, pop up a large tin shed, surround it with a security fence, erect a nice new sign to show this huge open pit copper mine or whatever and then finally place a couple of rough looking armed security guards and you have the making of a virtual company.
Then you create a nice new video showing your activity around the world with a couple of new trucks, a drill rig and lots of false out of date data and maps and you are ready to start your world tour to raise money for the project or phase.
You then invite lots of investors and a few little old ladies, wine and dine them and then show them your elaborate presentation before they finally succumb to your charm and hand over their hard earned money………..what they do not know is that from that moment their money has gone forever……..you then take the $6 billion or whatever and distribute it around the many directors (they have no employees) of your fake company who then distribute it via their other fake outlets so that its well and truly hidden.
Finally over the next 5 years you have to play your investors along and tell them things are looking good and you are carrying out exploration etc………then during year 2 you give them another update that things are looking good for production………then in year 3 you have a few setbacks such has torrential rain in the Congo or maybe a bit of the ongoing conflict has caused you a few setbacks……then in year 4 its getting worse and the exploration findings are not showing the yield you were expecting and by year 5….sorry folks the political situation and the current price of copper has caused us to pull out of the project as its no longer viable and the company closes down…….what you don’t know is that they re start the entire exercise all over again and rip another batch of investors off.
Before trying to understand how massive corporate fraud operates and how they are connected to the banks and many political figures we have to watch the following video which will act as a template for you all to better understand what is going on in all our respective countries:
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2008/20080602_bad_company/interviews.htm
OK with that out the way lets just get back to the main purpose of this story which is to reveal the fate of one such possible whistleblower, who just may have come across the fact that his company, Abbey National Bank, were carrying out massive fraud.
Maybe Richard Chang didn’t realize that because he was conscientious and because he was good at his job he just may have uncovered something that would eventually lead to his tragic death.
So who was Richard Chang:
Richard Chang was born on 8th December 1956 in Kampala , Uganda and grew up in England from the age of 7 years. He was married and was the father of two young children. He was a high achiever with a Degree in Polymer Science from Manchester University and an MBA from London University . He was well spoken, articulate and his first language was English.
Richard Chang worked at the Abbey National Bank PLC (Head Office)(“Abbey”) based at Triton Square , Euston, London . His role was that of a senior IT Risk Analyst and he commenced working in this specialty from 2002 onwards. He was working on a system known as the BASEL II corporate banking governance project. (Very concisely, BASEL II is the successor to BASEL I, originally set up by Peter Cooke, a Director of the Bank of England to enable central banks to assess lending and liability portfolios for the commercial banks it supervised. The system expanded to be applied by other central banks, internationally). Richard and his line manager, Vincent Santeng, were the only personnel at Abbey working on this project.
Richard gave his notice of resignation from Abbey on 2nd July 2007. This was so that he would begin work at the Royal Bank of Scotland on 2nd August 2004. However, on the 13th July 2004 shortly following a two hour interrogation by two operatives of Kroll Associates (“Kroll”), a private corporate intelligence and investigations’ company, Richard was found dead at almost 13.45pm on the ground floor atrium. It is said that he tragically fell from the fifth floor balcony inside the atrium of Abbey’s head office. In the interrogation, he was accused of writing and sending malicious anonymous documents to the Financial Services Authority (“FSA”) and senior directors of Abbey. The anonymous documents are said to have contained allegations of fraudulent malpractice at Abbey by senior directors. Ex-employees who worked closely with Richard at Abbey are of the opinion that the circumstances of his death are highly suspicious.
What I find an amazing coincidence is the fact that if he had uncovered fraud he was just about to join another company that was also rife with fraud at the time, the Royal Bank of Scotland.
Family and friends of Richard are convinced that this certainly was not a case of suicide and that his life ended after his cross examination by Kroll under very suspicious circumstances.
Before continuing with this story lets just give another example of one other location like Lonrho’s who also specialises in massive corporate fraud and who also operates a substantial boiler room of virtual/shell companies……the company is Arlington Associates and they are situated at 25 Arlington Street which is attached to the Ritz Hotel in London…..how convenient don’t you think?.......when you are ripping off the system its nice to pop in next door and enjoy the luxuries of life…….one should ask Tony Blair how good life can be as he his a regular participant in this world of deceit.
What I find ironic about this location is the fact that once some men dressed in a trilby, trench coats and very dark sunglasses carried out a raid there and yet this empire of massive fraud still continues doing what it does best……..taking your money…..no doubt it’s ring leader ex Ambassador Frances D Cook is still sleeping on a mattress of green back’s and also pushing over the pond the weapons that are manufactured by her other company ATK.
Maybe next time there is a march in London the crowds may just find this out of the way location……..they came close on the last rally when they targeted the Ritz…..in actual fact a group actually headed down the street to the left (Arlington Street) but obviously didn’t notice this boiler room that helped cause our economic decline…..oh well better luck next time hey?
Frances D Cook
Above you will see the directors of this illustrious company some of whom are ex SAS members, which appears to be a benchmark in qualifying for such a high status…..at the end of the day when you are ripping off the system you also need to protect your interests in whatever way required……..the same goes for Kroll Associates, a private corporate intelligence and investigation company to whom poor Richard Chang is alleged to have fallen victim too.
Now back to the Richard Chang story:
It is very clear that Richard, in his position as Senior IT Risk Analyst, would have been privy to some extremely sensitive information regarding the affairs of the Abbey National Bank. Richard, being a person with a pretty good IQ, would probably have also come across some irregularities within the bank, especially the possibility of fraud at director level and accordingly if this was the case would have been considered a high risk person by some members of the board. The very fact that he could well have uncovered something significant and that he was soon to leave for another job could have led to his death……what Richard didn’t understand was that he was about to join a much larger organization, The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), which also appeared rife with fraud at director level. It could have even been possible that there was some collusion between Abbey & the RBS regarding Richard Chang as it is normal for banks to have a cross check system on security issues etc and could have profiled him.
The main issue here is why did Richard suddenly become a target for the bank whilst he was serving his notice, why was his interrogation so aggressive and why would he have committed suicide when he had so much to live for……….from my perspective I find the basics of the case deeply suspicious and certainly there is a case to answer…..so lets now look at the events on that day.
The Abbey National Bank HQ in London is a substantial building of multi levels with an internal atrium. The picture below show the building after it was taken over by Santander.
Old Abbey National Building (Scene of the crime) 2 Triton Square , Euston, London
The day started normally for Richard and he had even made arrangement to meet up with family members later on in the day but what he didn’t realize on the day that they had hood winked him into attending a routine meeting that was not a meeting at all but a very privately arranged interrogation of Richard by Kroll Security. No one was allowed to sit in with him during this time. This in itself his totally out of order because Richard was a member of the union and it is normal for a union rep to be present. On could also clearly see that this was a breach of Human Rights and whatever the final verdict Abbey certainly has a case to answer.
The Guardian put Richards situation into perspective when they said:
Richard Chang didn't know he was being watched. He didn't know his employer had hired investigators to access employees' PCs and take fingerprints from glass water bottles around the office. He didn't know there were linguistics experts dissecting the grammar in every memo, email and letter. He didn't know he was on a list of 600 "suspects". And he didn't know that when he was called to what he thought was a routine Tuesday meeting he would spend the next two and a half hours being interviewed.
It is clear that this interview actually turned into a high pressure interrogation which I was about to find out when I listened to the taped transcript (which incidentally had been doctored). However I will get back to the interrogation later and now discuss some of the key players in this massive cover-up and also list the directors of the Abbey National Bank.
You will all find as we dig deeper into this tragic case at Abbey that some of the directors certainly were and still are implicated in massive fraud so let’s just divert our thoughts into what was possibly going on at number two Triton Square, Euston.
Luqman Arnold
The director of Abbey was Luqman Arnold and during his time in office was believed to be asset stripping the accounts at Abbey as were other directors. It was when the toxic assets increased that Arnold decided to sell the Abbey to Santander, a Spanish company……what was rather strange was the fact that Arnold stayed on after the Santander takeover and managed to secure himself a position as a consultant…….I guess one could possible believe that its better to know the devil you know than the devil you don’t!!
The banking sector and the Financial Times sometimes referred to him as “Lucky” or the Saviour but believe me there was no luck for those that fell under his spell or those that lost money whilst on his watch.
One statement referred to him as follows: Luqman Arnold makes an unlikely saviour of Britain's high street banks. Five years ago it was Abbey. Now he hopes to turn his healing hands to the crippled Northern Rock…etc
Arnolds CV reads as follows:
First National Bank in Dallas 1972-76,
Manufacturers Hanover Corporation 1976-82
Head of Investment Banking origination Credi Suesse First Boston 1982-92
Research Sabbatical 1992-93
Member Exec Committee and Bd Banque Paribas 1993-96
Group Exec Bd and President UBS AG 1996-2001
Chief Exec Abbey National plc 2002-2004
Senior Advisor to Chairman Grupo Santander 2004-06
Chairman Olivant Advisers Ltd 2006 –
Chairman Design Museum 2005-
One can clearly see that whichever way you turn the banks are up to their neck in corporate fraud and even offer unsecured loans to non existent oil and mining projects that then becomes a toxic debt…….oh well what difference does it make they just ask the government to bail them out and pass it on to the tax payer.
I can assure you that when I write the next article it will open up an extremely large hornet’s nest of fraud and corruption but in the meantime lets again get back to Richard’s tragic story.
There is no doubt whatsoever that in his position as a Senior IT Risk Analyst with the Abbey he would have uncovered something that would lead to his demise and it would be clear to anyone with an ounce of intelligence that the fraudulent senior staff members of the Abbey would have arranged for his removal.
Lets now look Richards death in more detail with the following details that were sent to me by a member of the family:
The Interrogation
Abbey management confirmed that on 13th July 2004, Richard was taken to a ground floor meeting room, where he was secretly taped by Kroll. There is in existence a copy of the recording and transcript of the interrogation which gives evidence that Richard was bullied, heckled and victimized during the session by the two operatives, Howard Jones (a former Metropolitan Police Detective Chief Superintendent and Peter Pender-Cudlip, a Solicitor and Kroll Director) of Kroll. At the Coroner’s Inquest (18th -20th July 2005), Richard’s line manager who was also interrogated by Kroll, following after Richard’s interrogation, confirmed that the recording of his interrogation had been edited. The Chang Family has strong reason to believe that the recording of Richard’s interrogation has also been heavily edited. Howard Jones admitted in a witness statement to the Inquest that he had tampered with the original recording by downloading it from his MP3 player onto the hard drive of his computer. He made a CD copy of the digital recording of the interrogation which he handed to the Metropolitan Police on the 29th July 2004. That is, 15 days after Richard had died. The Metropolitan Police took another week to transfer it on to audio tape.
Chang family support group
So what happened and who was responsible for initiating the investigation and interrogation?
On 13th July 2004, Richard was deceived (by his own department manager) into attending a BASEL II project meeting on his own which subsequently turned into a two and a half hour interrogation by Kroll Associates, conducted by Howard Jones, an ex-Detective Chief Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police and Peter Pender-Cudlip, a city lawyer. The interrogation was authorized by Abbey Management Directors. It was instigated by Luqman Arnold, CEO. Karen Fortunato, Company Secretary, Stephen Hester, Priscilla Vacassin, Human Resources director and Richard Carr, Interim Human Resources Director, Nathan Bostock, Head of Treasury, Nigel Walder (Button Wood Tree Consultancy-working within Abbey), Mark Jackson, IT manager, John Hasson, Ryan Brosnahan were involved in the investigation.
What was unethical (and suspicious) about the investigation conducted by Abbey’s Management?
Prior to the interrogation on 13th July 2004, Abbey’s Management, embarked on an investigation to determine who wrote the anonymous documents. The directors allege during the investigation they identified 40 possible suspects. In the RR65 race questionnaire, it was admitted that, out of the 40 suspects, Richard and his line manager (Nigerian origin) were the only non-whites. They allegedly devised a matrix system to identify suspects. The matrix has not been disclosed to the family notwithstanding albeit repeated requests to Abbey and the Metropolitan Police. Nathan Bostock decided very early on before the main investigation had begun that Richard Chang (Chinese) and his immediate line manager Vincent Santeng (Black) were co-authors of the anonymous documents i.e. pre-selection cannot be ruled out. Abbey allege that finger prints were secretly taken from drinking glasses using white gloves, from envelopes containing the anonymous documents as well as Richard’s personnel files. Richard Carr (Human Resources director) and Mark Jackson (Richard and Vincent’s IT manager) were allegedly instructed to take samples of Richard’s finger prints (using white gloves) without his consent ostensibly from drinking glasses after an appraisal meeting. Evidence shows that the results of the fingerprinting were inconclusive. When fingerprinting is used to identify an individual it is vital that a high degree of skill is exercised because the potential for error is high. It is important that all factors which would create any bias are eliminated (see Shirley McKie v Strathclyde Police).
The Chang Family has never been shown any evidence which proves Richard wrote the anonymous documents. The Chang Family maintains that Abbey has no evidence at all to prove that Richard wrote the anonymous documents. Richard’s line manager, after taking an employment action against Abbey, was cleared of all wrong-doing in respect of Abbey, who had originally accused both Richard and his line manager of writing the anonymous documents.
Who was responsible for allowing Richard to go in to the interrogation unattended?
The directors of Abbey management authorized the interrogation. Witness statements show that Robin Parkinson, Abbey’s in-house solicitor was consulted by Richard Carr and approved that the interrogations could take place without the presence of a trade union representative – or anyone else. Parkinson allowed Richard to be deceived on the false premise that Richard was a threat to IT security. Vincent Santeng stated at the Coroner’s Inquest that Richard could not have been a threat to IT security. Robin Parkinson’s line manager at the material time was Karen Fortunato. She is the Company Secretary for Abbey. Robin Parkinson commenced employment with Abbey on 5th July 2004 which was just 7 days before Richard died.
Why was this wrong?
An ex- employee of Abbey and a Trade Union representative who worked for Abbey for 16 years was approached by the interim Director of HR, Richard Carr to seek his advice. Richard Carr and Abbey Management in general chose to ignore his advice which was that there should always be a representative in such a meeting and that there was a written protocol that stated this. At a pre-hearing review in July 2006 the ex-Abbey employee said that he believed Richard was ‘ambushed’ and would probably still be alive today if he had been accompanied.
At a pre-hearing tribunal employment case against Abbey in July 2006, the ex-employee of Abbey emphasized that he had advised the Human Resources (“HR”) Director that anyone being interviewed should be accompanied by a member of the trade union. He stated that Richard was a member of the trade union. He re-iterated on more than one occasion that he was concerned that someone would be mistreated by Abbey. He also conferred with his line manager about the HR Director not taking his advice that there should be a trade union representative to accompany Richard Chang. He also mentioned that under the chairmanship of Lord Burns, this ‘new set of directors’ “would do as they please and no matter what information was given, they would not follow.”
Conduct of the Kroll Agents
In the interrogation, the Kroll agents accused Richard in tandem with Vincent Santeng of being the co-authors of the anonymous documents supposedly sent to the FSA and to Abbey, alleging financial corruption, fraud and sexual impropriety by named directors, Luqman Arnold, Nathan Bostock, Nigel Walder and Nick Riley. At the interrogation, Howard Jones made comments to the effect that he was accusing Richard of being one of the authors of the anonymous documents. Abbey believed that there was more than one author and that the first language of the originator(s) was not English. Richard therefore could not have been the author because his first language was English. Howard Jones and Peter Pender-Cudlip, the two Kroll agents, heckled, bullied and intimidated Richard in a degrading and hostile manner.
Howard Jones subjected Richard to continual and aggressive harassment in a futile attempt to get him to admit to writing (or being a significant contributor to) the authorship of the anonymous documents. Richard never admitted (at any time) that he wrote (or contributed to) any of the documents. Richard was put under psychological pressure whilst being detained in the interrogation room for two and a half hours without any intermission and he finally had to insist that they allow him go for a natural break since he was also hungry. The interrogation was racially discriminatory, personally degrading and hostile.
The Chang family previously issued a race questionnaire (“RR65”) to Abbey and Kroll. It is apparent from Abbey’s response that there are racial implications connected with their response i.e. out of the 40 suspects selected only Richard and his line manager were the only non-white. A matrix system (not shown at all to the Chang Family) by Abbey management was used.
What else was illegal and unethical?
Howard Jones secretly recorded the interrogation using a digital device hidden in a brief case without Richard’s consent. Richard’s line manager (on oath) stated at the Coroner’s Inquest that parts of the recording of the interrogation had been edited removing evidence relating to bullying, harassment and race.
Nathan Bostock was one of the named directors in the anonymous documents. Abbey’s internal management alleges that they investigated whether or not there was any substance to the contents of the anonymous documents and (ostensibly) subsequently found that there were none. Immediately following this ‘finding’, Nathan Bostock was assigned to head the investigation into the authorship of the anonymous documents.
The Metropolitan police conducted a flawed investigation
Richard’s line manager, Vincent Santeng, who was also interrogated by Kroll just before Richard died, alerted the police on the day that the circumstances relating to Richard’s death were suspicious. He is reported to have said “They’ve killed him”. The Senior Investigation Officer, Detective Sergeant Martin Sloan, from Holborn Police Station, after talking to Howard Jones (an ex-Detective Chief Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police), Nathan Bostock and Mark Jackson concluded on the next day that the death was a suicide and was not suspicious.
Richard’s sister, Valerie Chang spoke to Sergeant Neil Payne a few days after the death and asked why the police had not removed the digital device from Howard Jones immediately after Richard had died. He said that it was not necessary because Howard Jones was an ex-Detective Chief Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police. The handwritten note addressed to Howard Jones has been forensically tested by the Police. The results were that the signature was inconclusive. There are evidential inconsistencies as to where the note was actually found.
Having worked in association with Intel at NATO HQ and having worked at a Police Operation Centre I can assure you that the comments made by Sgt Neil Payne regarding the digital device held by Howard Jones were not normal police protocol. There was also a fundamental mistake made by The Senior Investigaton Officer, DS Martin Sloan when he had taken and accepted the word of an ex cop (ex DCS of the Metropolitan Police -Howard Jones) and concluded that the death was suicide before a full investigations, forensic sweep of the building and before the full autopsy results were known……this again was a non standard flaw by those involved and certainly should qualify for the case to be re opened.
Regarding the Police Investigation - I have observed gross violations of normal police procedures here, especially when they accepted the word of a non serving member. It is of my opinion that what happened on that day and how the investigation was conducted certainly qualifies for an inquiry by the IPCC.
Regarding Abbey Nation - There is also a clear case against the company in relation to a violation of basic human rights in the way Richard Chang was treated. Senior members of staff at the time should be pulled back in for further investigation on this matter and charged. There is also the case of fraudulent activity taking place at a very high level and in this context the senior members of staff should be investigation by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and charges made if appropriate.
There are many more interesting findings which I will discuss in Part 2 of the Richard Chang Story as well as revealing the possibility of massive fraud which is interconnected to other fraudulent webs that once again just so happen to link in with 22 Arlington Street, London.
One thing I can assure the Chang Family is that Richard’s death will not be in vain…..this man obviously knew too much and now Gordon and I know what that may have been up too……Richard may have been the sacrificial lamb but one thing for sure….the perpetrators who planned and carried out his death will truly regret their actions because we will not only look for justice and bring those responsible to court but we will also shake the very foundation of the other scumbags who continue to rape the corporate and banking sectors of this country.
I believe that after this exposure the police and those involved will themselves look for a scapegoat and offer one of their own to become their sacrificial lamb rather than risk continues media exposure of their fraudulent and corrupt empire………Gordon and I would certainly ask for a focus to be placed on the ex cop Howard Jones who could well turn out to be that lamb!!
What I find incredibly sad is an assessment that was carried out on the system that had been pushed into the Abbey and become one of Richard’s projects. The report stated the following:
A set of capital adequacy standards for international banks drawn up by a committee of G-10 supervisors – is essential if we are to avoid another financial crisis. This paper argues that this conclusion is false: Basel II is not the solution to the crisis, but instead an underlying cause of it. I ask why Basel II’s creators fell so short of their aim of improving the safety of the international banking system…….Basel II failed and its replacement Basel III is also doomed to failure. Richard was working on this failed system and I am sure he was probably aware that this upgrade was also a total waste of money for a company that was struggling to stay afloat, especially that the CEO was intending to sell the company to Santander anyway!!.
Mmmmmm something strange going on here!!.......Must ask Howard Jones more questions!!
Watch this space for more in depth details of Richard’s interrogation, autopsy and strong ties to Temple Church etc as well as how these directors have all moved on to continue the same line of work……you will be very surprised just how well Gordon Bowden has linked the spiders web to the same pile of crooks we have been talking about for a very long time………as you know my site is continuously attacked by the political elite but Gordon and I remain strong and continue to pump the information out.
Peter Eyre – Middle East Consultant – 5/6/2011 www.eyreinternational.worpress.com
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