By©Muhammad Haque
[Version Edited and republished at ]1835 Hrs GMT
London Wednesday 11 July 2007
The matter of the Bangladeshis in the UK being robbed
of their cash [to the tunes of several £Million] by
UK-based Bangladeshi money transfer [and related
criminal. fraudulence and misconduct] operatives
concerned is a scandal the like of which has never
happened in the Bangladeshi community in this
particular way or on this particular scale before.
It is also one phenomenal issue affecting such a
significant number of the community with devastating
personal consequences that will cause serious negative
repercussions within the community if it is not
resolved speedily and justly by the thieves restoring
the cash to the people who have been robbed. It will
go out of hand if the robbers do not return the money
to the people.
Protracted and planned diversionary tactics -
including the criminally false tactic of invoking the
excuses under the UK company law and alleged
liquidators, must not be countenanced by anyone who
wants to help the people get their money back from
those who took the money and have hidden it.
This is one issue which must be laid at the door of
the thieves and the robbers themselves and if any
state authority is to be blamed it must be the state
authorities in Bangladesh itself in the main. This
issue must not be used as a short-term [or any term]
tool by or for the attention-seeking or
publicity-hungry elements or groups.
It is also one that cannot be resolved by staging
publicity-linked stunts around the ‘British
Parliament’. The responsibility of the ‘British
institutions’ over this matter can only be secondary.
Why? Because the ones who set up the ‘money transfer’
outfits and perpetrated the thefts and the robberies
did so by capitalising on their being Bangladeshis
themselves, avowedly claiming to be in business to
‘serve’ Bangladeshi customers in the main and about
transferring money from the UK to Bangladesh. These
operatives did not set up - in what has been already
exposed as their criminal scam disguised as business
- because they were even bothered about following any
formally ethically sound and just regulatory system
that might [in theory] have been in place under the
overall control of the UK Parliament or of the UK
Government of the day. These operatives set up their
scams because they found it possible to avoid being
scrutinised as they carried on their so-called
business. They took advantage of the absence of
regulation which is on a wider scale a feature of the
UK that came about under the regimes of Thatcher,
Major and Blair. But that wider question of lax or
inadequate or absent regulation on money matters is
not primarily relevant to the behaviour of the thieves
in robbing their 'fellow Bangladeshis' in the UK.
Politically and socially, the responsibility lies
within the Bangladeshi community. If the community
fails to come together on a truly selfless and morally
irreproachable level and if it fails to do so by
letting the thieves get away and by letting down the
thousands of mostly private persons then the losses
inflicted on these private persons will eventually
undermine and irreparably damage the honour, the name
and the integrity and the collective and in many
respects the personal integrity of the Bangladeshis in
the UK and beyond.
The UK Bangladeshi community must come together with
speedy and real results.
The question is - can it do so? Can the Bangladeshi
community in the UK show to its own satisfaction and
on a universally acceptable moral standard the
capacity to mobilise the moral and the social pressure
in a lawful and appropriate way and in time so that
the victims of the robbery actually get the money they
have lost?
The test is in the cash being actually handed back to
the people who have been robbed...
This can be done, by the UK Bangladeshis coming
together on a morally tenable and proper basis if the
many ‘organisations’ and groups that have already
appeared with a variety of statements of concern and
support for the victims of the money transfer robbery
show by their actions, by their manifest
prioritisation of the rights of the pope who have been
robbed that hey, these organisations and those
‘concerned makers of statements’ are NOT at all
motivated by any influence or agenda other than the
one that is based on and intended to restore the only
to the people that have been robbed via the operation
of ‘’First Solution’’.
EVIDENCE exists of the very close links between the
perpetrators of the robbery and an identifiable number
of the ‘makers of the statements’ of concern at the
robbery. That evidence is the ground for the anxiety
about the possibility that the victims of the robbery
may yet be robbed all over again - of the opportunity
to get their money back.
For this reason, CBRUK has set up a legal action
programme which will be available to all genuine
people who have lost money to the thieves operating
via the ‘First Solution’ to seek the help f the
existing UK legal system to get their money back..
If there is any genuine sense of honour, if there is
any genuine sense of true solidarity and compassion
with the people robbed, then the community must
actively discourage all further resorts to personally
motivated publicity and personality-centric activities
that can only divert the attention away from the
rights and the needs of the victims to get their money
back and get it back NOW..
We have a basic duty of care here: people have been
robbed and it is about their losses. It must remain
about their losses. We must focus on that and stay
focussed on that.
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