High Street Banks
October 13th, 2010
The watchdog organization Global Witness released a report this week exposing ties between a number of British High Street bankers and corrupt Nigerian officials. The report detailed the reprehensible actions of Barclays, NatWest, RBS, HSBC and UBS, which for years took money from Nigerian officials. As we are all acutely aware, such corruption fuels poverty, entrenches dishonest politicians, and exacerbates obstructions to development for many countries.
I want to be surprised. Really, I do. They just make it so hard for me.
Each of those banks has been embroiled in scandal at one point or another in the...
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