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A firm founded by Rishi Sunak’s father-in-law signed a billion-dollar deal with BP two months before the prime minister opened hundreds of new licences for oil and gas extraction in the North Sea.

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[-] thesprongler@lemmy.world 100 points 1 year ago

And here I, a public employee, have to take an ethics course each year and cannot accept gifts over $50 (sorry, am American).

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago

cannot get caught accepting gifts over $50

FTFY

JK, you have to already rich to be allowed to accept ~~bribes~~ gifts.

[-] cmhickman358@thelemmy.club 20 points 1 year ago

The part they leave off is you can't accept gifts over $50 or under $10,000, after that it becomes lobbying so that's all fine

[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

In the private sector the fuckers make every damn line staff down to the new janitorial intern take a course on insider trading ...as if anyone but the fucking executive suite and board of directors has the money to buy the company's stock in the first place, and secondly NONE of those people are privy to market-making news. Abysmally backward.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago

If anybody ever offers me some money to betray the company I work for I'm 100% going to take it. What do I care, they have consistently failed to give a raise in the last 2 years

[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Don't. You're the underclass and not only would they go after you if they found out because you are not powerful, the courts are levered against you because, again you are not powerful.

Just put the anger into learning values skills, it's what most do. Eventually you get your reward.

[-] drolex@sopuli.xyz 84 points 1 year ago

What a weird coincidence! What are the chances?

[-] angrymouse@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Brazilians looking to their 2/3 of center right and right wing politicians: first time?

[-] Land_Strider@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Turkish people hanging on the next noose: Such a lovely day and ordinary day, isn't it?

[-] lars@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Is Erdoğan this specific kind of corrupt (in addition to all the other ways he is Team Satan)?

[-] Land_Strider@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh of course, he hopes to have his family become a dynasty like the Ottoman sultans. His son-in-law has very probably stole about ~$128-$400 billion dollars from the treasury when he was the appointed minister. His son and some of his nephews iirc have fleets of commercial ships. He probably sold some of the precious ports (Antalya and İzmir) to Qatar businessmen. Roketsan, the Turkish state-funded military industry that produces some effective NATO and Turkish missiles is most likely sold to Qatar recently, as well. Many other financial corruption tied to people around him, but these ones are from recent memory. Last minister of internal affairs was ironically regarded as minister of crime affairs (iç işleri-suç işleri) because of his "alleged" ties to Columbian cartels, and many more internal criminal activities.

Note that we can't even lawfully confirm these things because he has all the justice system in the palm of his hands. Did you know that last year Europe was starting to scrutinize acceptance of people from Turkey with state official passports because the previously-mentioned minister of internal affairs was handing them out like candy to known Syrian and Pakistani terrorist organization members?

There is no hope other than waiting for this guy to die, especially after the last elections. Did you also know that most of the surviving victims of the last years deadly (officially 40-50 thousand dead, estimated above 100k dead) earthquake still voted heavily (60-70%) in favor of Erdoğan, who is the sole responsible person for repeatedly allowing unapproved buildings to be constructed and sold in the region as well are the remaining parts of Turkey?

From what I read about Brazil and comparing these to the experience here, I can say Brazil is running the same risks every time some similarly-worrisome president is elected there, but at least they can get rid of them in a few years each time so the damage can be stopped at some point.

With the best case here, when this guy dies, his criminal empire with hired terrorists and militants, mafia structures, religious organizations like Feto (there are few more still, with now Menzil in the graces of Erdoğan) will most likely disintegrate the country of no other US-backed similar devil is appointed as "Middle East co-president" as Erdoğan used to say.

Europe better be ready when the refugee dam breaks and also Turkish and Kurdish people are added to the millions of Syrians, Pakistani and Afgan immigrants run towards it.

Sorry for long rant. Everyday life goes on but sometimes the reality of the situation hits hard.

[-] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Hes such a weasel. Of course nothing will be done cause he is one of the privileged few.

[-] baascus@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago

Things like this should ruin a career and tarnish a name.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well it does. He just doesn't care because he doesn't really have a reputable name to begin with.

[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago

That's a whole new level of corruption.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 year ago

It’s completely above board. /s

[-] SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago

~~Biden~~ Sunak Crime Family

[-] lntl@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

I'm sure this is just a coincidence

[-] DieguiTux8623@feddit.it 8 points 1 year ago

The article is dated 01/08/2023, it doesn't seem so recent...

[-] federalreverse@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago

Scary that this didn't create waves in the month and a half since.

[-] beetus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It did. Lots of times. I've seen this headline multiple times. People don't seem to care.

[-] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

insider trade?

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