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We live in a completely corrupted world where every government is just a bunch of businessmen working for a bigger bunch of businessmen and none of them give a shit about the people. The sad fact is no-one knows how to change it, because no-one knows how to take on the corporations. Woody Harrelson
A little known unit of the Met was being secretly set up to crack the cycle of corruption that had infiltrated the country’s biggest police force. Amid the scandals that engulfed the early ’90s, a few brave senior police chiefs decided a new tactic was needed. A tactic that would go after those directly responsible for the corruption to catch them in the act. The Real Line of Duty I, Amazon 2024
‘In the early 1990s cases of corruption were still arising.’ ibid. Graeme McLagan
‘A senior detective was saying that he could ring up anyone at any station across London and they’d fix things. And he’d actually used the phrase, We’re a firm within a firm.’ ibid.
There were major concerns that corruption was spiralling out of control in certain pockets of London. ibid.
It was clear corruption wasn’t confined to Stoke Newington. ibid.
Many of the names were linked to the South East Regional Crime Squad. ibid.
Roger Gasper’s work with the Ghost Squad was widely acknowledged for establishing just how widespread corruption was in the Met, but it had limited success. ibid.
The decision was taken to form a new unit called CIB3. ibid.
The story of Southern Investigations [bent rozzers] begins in 1987 with the murder of Jonathan Rees’s then partner running the organisation, Daniel Morgan. Morgan was found dead with an axe in his head in a pub car park. Several people have been charged with involvement in the murder but no-one has ever been convicted. The Real Line of Duty II
The operation to catch Southern Investigations and Austin Warnes in the act was deemed an early success for CIB3 and proved that the change in strategy in countering corrupting was working. ibid.
Kevin Garner & Terry McGuinness: They admitted to a total of 19 offences of corruption stretching back to 1991, ranging from stealing hundreds of thousands of pounds to fabricating evidence. ibid.
‘Hector Harvey has basically participated in an armed robbery while is on compassionate leave from prison for a week. Couldn’t make it up.’ ibid. author
Involved in the corrupt activity was Kevin Garner who was responsible for collecting the stolen cash and sharing it with the other corrupt officers. ibid.
Several Flying Squad officers being sent down for corruption. ibid.
Their fight against corruption in the Met had only just begun. ibid.
A team of hard-drinking rogue detectives who called themselves The Groovy Gang: Robert Clark, Neil Putnam, Chris Drury. The Real Line of Duty III
‘Fleckney [big cocaine dealer] was getting tipped off … Fleckney was an informant for Clark … She was in love with Clark.’ ibid. CIB3 rozzer
It was an impossible choice for Putnam: protect his friends, or lose protection for him and his family. ibid.
‘The main way that Clark and Drury won their appeal was because Eve Fleckney flatly refused to give any kind of evidence. She withdrew her evidence entirely saying she’d been forced into it.’ ibid. author
[John Doe to journalist]: I want you to report the material and to make these crimes public … There is just a mind-boggling amount of criminal activity going on here. The Panama Papers, Netflix 2018
Tens of trillions of dollars are held in offshore accounts. ibid. news
Income equality is one of the defining issues of our time. ibid. John Doe’s manifesto
In 2015, a whistleblower gave the German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung a data archive containing all the records of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca. ibid. caption
Summer 2015: The project has grown to over 100 journalists worldwide. All working in secret. ibid.
NBC News Investigates: Trump’s Panama Problem? ibid. news banner
Cameron Dragged Into Tax Havens Story: Huge data leak reveals details of his father’s investments. ibid. Daily Mail front page
Massive Leak Exposes Worldwide Corruption. Putin Spokesman: Leaked Documents Are CIA Plot. ibid. GMA news banner
Former police officer Roger Rogerson is an evil man. A few hours ago he was found guilty of murdering 20-year-old university student, Jamie Gao. 60 Minutes Australia: Bad Cop, Good Cop (Part 1) 2018
Sallie-Anne Huckstepp: 1981 told 60 Minutes Roger Rogerson had murdered her boyfriend, Warren Lanfranchi. ibid.
The notion that Roger Rogerson could be the biggest rat in the police ranks comes as no surprise to many. ibid.
It’s 1981 and to most Australians the cops are the good guys … but in the nation’s biggest police force truth was stranger than fiction. 60 Minutes Australia: Who Killed Sallie-Anne? 2022
One of the nation’s most celebrated officers proven to be a terrorizing criminal: Roger Rogerson. ibid.
It would be a single mother, a heroin addict and King’s Cross prostitute named Sallie-Anne Huckstepp … [who] would eventually trigger the biggest clean-out of crooked cops in Australian history. ibid.
The bravery of one young woman turned the tide on dirty cops. ibid.
A 60 Minutes interview with journalist Ray Martin. ibid.
‘I’ve been paying the police for ten years.’ ibid. Sallie-Anne
‘The most important whistleblower in New South Wales police history by far.’ ibid. top rozzer
Five years after that interview Sallie-Anne was found dead, strangled face down in a pond. ibid.
Two shots: In six seconds on a quiet suburban street, one of Australia’s highest ranking cops lied dead [Colin Winchester]. 60 Minutes Australia: Mafit Hit, 2023
Second most senior police officer in Australia has just been assassinated. ibid.
The very real possibility that his execution was a Mafia hit. ibid.
On November 3rd 1995, 6 years after Colin Winchester’s murder, and an epic 85-day trial, much of it built on circumstantial evidence, [David] Eastman was found guilty. He was sentenced to Life in prison … In 2018 [David] Eastman was acquitted and paid more than seven million dollars in compensation for his time in jail. ibid.
With this bust police are handed an incredible and unexpected breakthrough in the greatest unsolved Mafia hit in Australian history: the murder of Donald Mackay. ibid.
In 1980 Winchester has taken on an undercover drug operation. When two are arrested with marijuana from his operation, the godfathers press for action. ibid.
But Winchester and the AFP had no involvement in these raids … These operations cost the Mafia an estimated half a billion dollars. ibid.