THREE Scottish Conservatives, including the party’s former leader, have been questioned by police as part of a corruption investigation in the United States.
David McLetchie and ex-Tory MSP Brian Monteith, were interviewed about a dinner they attended with a Republican Congressman and his associates.
The Lothian and Borders Police probe is part of a US Justice Department inquiry into an alleged “trips for votes” scandal involving lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
US authorities want details of a trip Abramoff made to the UK five years ago, when he was accompanied by his commercial clients and former House majority leader Tom DeLay. Part of the visit included a golfing trip to St Andrews, where the US delegation dined with a small group of senior Tories, including McLetchie and Monteith.
Top Scots Tories caught up in US corruption probe
Drug-taking in the British Army has reached record levels, with the numbers of soldiers testing positive for class A drugs such as cocaine and ecstasy rising by nearly 50 per cent in the past five years.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article549509.ece
THE number of Scottish children receiving treatment for drug addiction has trebled over the past decade, new figures reveal.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2090-2190458,00.html
According to the Guardian, members of an international crime gang were allowed to come to Britain because their leader had links to Customs & Excise.The evidence for this came out at an immigration appeals tribunal.The Baybasin Cartel, a Kurdish gang, controlled up to 90% of the heroin which entered the UK.
Top heroin gang; UK politicians; UK customs.
The revelations surrounding Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell and her multimillionaire husband David Mills’s financial dealings say much about the corrupt social elite that run Britain.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/mar2006/jowe-m16.shtml
Sir Alistair Graham, appointed to oversee politicians’ behaviour, has criticised Tony Blair for treating standards as a “minor issue, not worthy of serious consideration”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2190422,00.html
A senior UK immigration officer has been suspended after allegations that he offered to help a teenage girl, a rape victim, to obtain asylum in the UK if she had sex with him. The immigration centre at Lunar House in London, was the subject of a separate “sex for visas” scandal in January 2006.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,1779772,00.html
A SENIOR police officer has claimed detectives faked diaries and planted evidence in a bid to frame a 12-year-old for the murder of his older brother... A senior police officer has been found guilty of raping two women.
UK policemen telling lies? A senior policeman committing rape?
The Sunday Herald can reveal that in June 2000 – more than three years after the erroneous McKie identification – the Crown Office discovered that a man was about to be prosecuted in court on the basis of flawed fingerprint evidence by the Glasgow bureau.
http://www.sundayherald.com/55788
Violent offences in England and Wales reached record levels in 2004-5 with police recording one million crimes - up 7% from the previous year.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4700575.stm
A senior prison officer has been jailed for life for a series of rapes, kidnaps and indecent assaults against women and young girls in West Yorkshire.
Prison guard admits girls' kidnap
A CHAIN-smoking Scots youngster who became pregnant at 11 is set to become the UK's youngest mum.
Breakdown of law and order in Scotland? Time for a change.
The Sunday Mirror revealed: 'Junkie mum of pregnant girl, 12, landed carer job'.
The heroin-smoking mum of Britain's youngest pregnant girl was allowed by social workers to foster a 14-year-old boy at her squalid West Lothian drug-den.
Iqbal Mirchi lives in Hornchurch, in England. Mirchi is allegedly among the top 50 global drug barons; according to the US authorities he is the right-hand man of Dawood Ibrahim, head of the 'D' company, a worldwide mafia, which reportedly has links to Osama bin laden. Bombs in Mumbai in 1993 killed over 300 people. Mirchi's name was linked to the bombings. According to Mirchi: 'A senior police officer told me that my name would be attached to false charges unless I paid millions of rupees in bribes.'
MAFIA & TERROR LINKS TO GOVERMENTS?
UK : "Each week, a murder or rape is committed by offenders supposedly under supervision. Yet, even knee-deep in evidence of its own failure, the National Probation Service cannot acknowledge its inability to reform these criminals. It is all a deadly con trick, writes David Fraser, who spent years working in the service."
Telegraph News Crime and capitulation
UK worst in Europe for anti-social behaviour
THE BRITISH ARMY - LONG HISTORY OF USING TORTURE
Lockerbie - new forensic tests suggest evidence was planted by the CIA
Police chief- Lockerbie evidence was faked
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