16 March 2008

Parmalat trial: alleged £11 billion fraud, 34,000 witnesses

One of those scandals that Italy specialises in. Compare and contrast our own UK potato scandal at: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/retailing/article3559475.ece
A mere £3million in bribes alleged, as opposed to the astronomical Italian figure. But the point is: it does happen in the UK too. Food is big business and where there's brass, there's fraud, to paraphrase the old Yorkshire saying: where there's muck there's brass...and conversely, where there's brass there's muck...[for the benefit of our non-dom readers]

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