{"id":111169,"date":"2019-09-21T03:21:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T01:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/09\/21\/the-men-who-plundered-europe-bankers-on-trial-for-siphoning-e60bn\/"},"modified":"2019-09-21T03:21:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T01:21:25","slug":"the-men-who-plundered-europe-bankers-on-trial-for-siphoning-e60bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=111169","title":{"rendered":"&#039;The men who plundered Europe&#039;: bankers on trial for siphoning \u20ac60bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Shields and Nick Diable are accused of tax fraud in \u2018cum-ex\u2019 scandal that exposes City\u2019s pursuit of profitThey have been called \u201cthe men who plundered Europe\u201d: a group of cowboy traders, seasoned tax lawyers and mathematical whizz kids who are alleged to have conspired in the heart of the City of London to siphon at least \u20ac60bn in taxpayers\u2019 money from the state coffers of several EU countries.In Britain, the so-called \u201ccum-ex\u201d scandal, named after the complex derivatives juggling act employed, gained little attention amid the frenzied debate around the UK\u2019s departure from the European Union when the fraud scheme was discovered in 2017. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2019\/sep\/20\/the-men-who-plundered-europe-city-of-london-practices-on-trial-in-bonn\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;The men who plundered Europe&#039;: bankers on trial for siphoning \u20ac60bn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Shields and Nick Diable are accused of tax fraud in \u2018cum-ex\u2019 scandal that exposes City\u2019s pursuit of profitThey have been called \u201cthe men who plundered Europe\u201d: a group of cowboy traders, seasoned tax lawyers and mathematical whizz kids who are alleged to have conspired in the heart of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}