a whistleblower that is not as famous as Edward
Snowden, the Snowman Informer, but who
nonetheless helped tell us about the "crimes" of Goldman
Sachs, particularly how it strong-armed HMRC to drop
its request for GS to pay the 20 million is owed.
As a result of his good deeds, Mr Mba is sitting idle.
Because criminals like to work in the dark.
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Hartnett takes all: Osita Mba takes the punishment. There is no justice in that
Posted
on May 29 2013
As the
Guardian notes this morning:
Until last summer the country's top tax
official, Dave Hartnett is taking up a job with tax consultancy Deloitte. Does
this matter? Yes, it does; both in its specifics, and the light it casts on the
relationship between our governing elite and corporate interests.
Quite
right. And they're right to criticise Hartnett too. But the most telling bit in
what they have to say is this:
The contrast between his soft landing and
the brutal treatment administered to Osita Mba, the whistleblower who exposed
the Goldmans deal, is stark and troubling.
Quite
so. Make life easy for big business at HMRC and get handsomely rewarded. Seek
to uphold the law, tell the truth and keep parliament informed of what is
really going on and get hounded.
And
that happened on Hartnett's watch.
