This is fecking shocking:

http://www.huffingtonpost...feba02e4b0daf53aefa1da

http://www.theage.com.au/...-bribed-the-world.html

Is it getting much coverage in the US, or is your media as much under the thumb of big business / the government as appears to be the case in the UK?

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I had, perhaps somewhat naively, assumed that there was at least a degree of openness and freedom of speech in the UK's press and media.  Nope, not even a smidge of it.  I even find it hard to worry about this scandal because the scale is almost beyond my ability to grasp.  It does seem like The Times and (somewhat surprisingly) The Daily Mail are covering this story though, so perhaps there's some minute form of hope still:
 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-3518556/Monaco-raids-Unaoil-offices-global-oil-corruption-probe.html
 
Kinda sad that it required the Antipodean media to break the story on this.

Interesting, but I'm not surprised if this turns out to be true........the greed for money has no bounds (the collection, concealment, cover up of it etc...)   

HSBC has been named in a bunch of shady deals over the last 2 decades. They don't get charged because bringing them down would bring all sorts of names to light that want to remain in the shadows.

ston
http://www.huffingtonpost...feba02e4b0daf53aefa1da

http://www.theage.com.au/...-bribed-the-world.html

Is it getting much coverage in the US, or is your media as much under the thumb of big business / the government as appears to be the case in the UK?
...

 
I'm guessing there are a lot of rich Britons involved ... including the Royals?

Gosh, at first I thought, well BBC is not just going to follow the lead of the lowly Huffington post. The I googled unaoil site BBC.com and got nothing. Then I googled unaoil site nytimes.com and got:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/03/31/world/europe/ap-eu-monaco-corruption.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/04/01/world/europe/ap-eu-monaco-corruption.html
The latter contains the statement: "Monaco police carried out several raids and detained executives of Unaoil for questioning this week at the request of British anti-fraud authorities, he said. The company, reportedly suspected of paying huge bribes to secure contracts for multinational oil companies, denies wrongdoing."
 
Apparently for BBC  it did not have the news value of Woodrow Wilson's rascist views. 
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35964791
 

Moshkito
I'm guessing there are a lot of rich Britons involved ... including the Royals?

Wouldn't surprise me in the least.
 
Your starter for 10: who is the single biggest land owner in the world?

Googled it....
 
 
 http://www.whoownstheworld.com/about-the-book/largest-landowner/
 
Queen Elizabeth II, head of state of the United Kingdom and of 31 other states and territories, is the legal owner of about 6,600 million acres of land, one sixth of the earth’s non ocean surface.
 
She is the only person on earth who owns whole countries, and who owns countries that are not her own domestic territory. This land ownership is separate from her role as head of state and is different from other monarchies where no such claim is made – Norway, Belgium, Denmark etc.
 
The value of her land holding. £17,600,000,000,000 (approx)....
 
 

Mesh
Googled it....
 
 
 http://www.whoownstheworld.com/about-the-book/largest-landowner/
 
Queen Elizabeth II, head of state of the United Kingdom and of 31 other states and territories, is the legal owner of about 6,600 million acres of land, one sixth of the earth’s non ocean surface.
 
She is the only person on earth who owns whole countries, and who owns countries that are not her own domestic territory. This land ownership is separate from her role as head of state and is different from other monarchies where no such claim is made – Norway, Belgium, Denmark etc.
 
The value of her land holding. £17,600,000,000,000 (approx)....

 
I bet she doesn't take care of the yards herself...
 

craigb

Mesh
Googled it....
 
 
 http://www.whoownstheworld.com/about-the-book/largest-landowner/
 
Queen Elizabeth II, head of state of the United Kingdom and of 31 other states and territories, is the legal owner of about 6,600 million acres of land, one sixth of the earth’s non ocean surface.
 
She is the only person on earth who owns whole countries, and who owns countries that are not her own domestic territory. This land ownership is separate from her role as head of state and is different from other monarchies where no such claim is made – Norway, Belgium, Denmark etc.
 
The value of her land holding. £17,600,000,000,000 (approx)....

 
I bet she doesn't take care of the yards herself...
 

She outsources it to a guy in Scotland