More (draft or has it been submitted?) crookedness from Aviva and pals at Linklaters?

steampowered wrote: »

Checking Aviva's financial statements is the job of their auditors, who are PwC. Not the job of the independent expert appointed to prepare the report.

Before the books get to either of those parties, its the job of the directors - every man Jack and Harriet of them. And if an independent expert presents him or herself to a court of law as such, they'd better be sure they don't sign heir name to anything given in evidence other the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Abdication of accountability and obfuscation of truth is what unfortunately defines the City, and the likes of steampowered methinks. So many think that's business. In financial services it most definitely isn't. It's fraud, plain and simple. Can't blame the darlings - they're surrounded, marinaded, and totally infused/confused by it.

Come the revolution, just so's they know before they get in too deep for redemption, it's a given that they can all be very easily spat out. Capiche ?

steampowered wrote: »

Indeed. There is no problem. The job of the auditors is to audit a company's financial statements. Financial audit is not the job of an independent expert appointed to advise the court on the implementation of a transfer scheme.

The independent expert is not sufficiently independent to be accepted to provide expert evidence, but clearly is independent enough to slip into his report a copy of the corrupt original brief which says do as we say and do not question what we say.

tiktakbak, with freedom comes responsibility. I fly planes - its a great freedom which unless you ever do, you might never fully understand that to which you allude airily, but it comes with a great responsibility not to weaken and fly the bloody thing into the towers of the City to make a point against the freedoms those crooks habitually think they can exercise with scant chance of bringing FCA or PRA or even MSE down on their heads.

I also ski, often across borders, and sometimes still on the pointy ones rather than the soft curved ones - free as a bird I am, but I sometimes wonder what it might be like to ski early morning above Davos and start an avalanche to bury some more of the same crooks on their annual shindig. That's even though of course, I always fully accept the responsibility not to ski off piste in areas where I might endanger others, and resist the thoughts of what I actually could do with the pointy skis once the crooks are down

PS Colonel is spelled with an e not an a - I guess I am free to point that out without you taking too much offence?

PPS Those with an interest in freedoms will note that one of my posts was censured this evening ostensibly because I had earlier commented about hecklers holding hands, but probably there are other interests at work who don't like my excursions into more corporate analyses. For the avoidance of doubt, and to aid the spotting of the missing post, I think it was one that ended with the sentence fairlead quoted and bolded four posts above - and there was a reminder in the middle of it that the total funds in question were some £200 BILLION, ... or maybe more than one post has disappeared ... Yer pays yer money and yer ... Oo-er!

PPPS If I go quiet for a period, you'll know why ... :eek: