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Questions surface about whether Nigel Farage complained when UK banks shut British expats’ accounts (leftfootforward.org)

submitted 1 year ago by Syldon to c/uk_politics

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The scrote doesn't care that he has made a boat load of cash at the expense of thousands of others. He doesn't care about the thousands of businesses that have gone under because of him and his mates. But when he is hit in the pockets by having to move to a pleb account, then we get questioned in parliament and a plethora of front page headlines about how hard he is done by. When is he ever going to live up to the threats of "I am going to have to leave the UK".

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[–] teamonkey@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

This is what highly regulated companies like banks, law firms, insurance companies etc. do for all Politically Exposed Persons. It’s not about corporate values, it’s about risk exposure, especially if there’s the possibility of a conflict of interest.

For example, a bank will want to know if there’s a risk of that person being subject to international sanctions due to people they have met or accepted money from, or a risk that a person’s finances may be investigated for fraud, or if someone is suing that person using using the same lawyers the bank uses. They create a report of anything that may be relevant in future and keep it up to date.

The “doesn’t align with our values” is PR for “this guy’s too risky for the amount of money he has”