Comment by osrec

As a former investment banker, it's pretty clear that corruption is everywhere in the UK, even if it's channeled via "legal" protocols. I mean, just on the trading floor, we have all sorts of weird and wonderful deals going on between brokers, clients and other intermediaries. Most of this will never be picked up because (a) it's either shrouded in complexity (engineered by some of the brightest minds), or (b) hardly anyone actually investigates the audit trail in the level of detail required to highlight wrongdoing. As an example, the guy doing the the bad stuff is a triple first graduate from Cambridge, while the investigator is a 2:1 recipient from University of Salford. In most cases, the Cambridge guy gets away with it by outwitting his investigator.