A
journalist who has spent over a decade documenting the criminal dealings of the
mafia has named Britain the most corrupt country in the world. 36-year-old
Roberto Saviano who wrote the best-selling exposés Gomorrah and ZeroZeroZero,
made the comments at the Hay Literary Festival.
He
has been living under police protection since publishing revelations about
members of the Camorra, a powerful Neapolitan branch of the mafia, in 2006.
He
said: “If I asked you what is the most corrupt place on Earth you might tell me
well it’s Afghanistan, maybe Greece, Nigeria, the South of Italy and I will
tell you it’s the UK.
“It’s
not the bureaucracy, it’s not the police, it’s not the politics but what is
corrupt is the financial capital. 90 per cent of the owners of capital in
London have their headquarters offshore.
“Jersey
and the Cayman’s are the access gates to criminal capital in Europe and the UK
is the country that allows it. That is why it is important why it is so crucial
for me to be here today and to talk to you because I want to tell you , this is
about you, this is about your life, this is about your government.”
Mr
Saviano also weighed in on the EU referendum debate, Britain will go to the
polls next month to decide whether to leave the EU or remain and he makes a
case for remaining.
He
said: “Leaving the EU means allowing this to take place. It means allowing the
Qatari societies, the Mexican cartels, the Russian Mafia to gain even more
power and HSBC has paid £2 billion Euros in fines to the US government, because
it confessed that it had laundered money coming from the cartels and the
Iranian companies. We have proof, we have evidence.”
Source:
Independent UK
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