Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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'Bigger than phone hacking' - Soca sat on blue-chip dirty tricks evidence for years
Angry MPs join calls for secret list of those involved as banks and pharmaceutical firms are linked
to rogue private investigators
Banks and pharmaceutical companies are on a secret list of blue-chip firms that hired private
investigators who break the law, The Independent has learned.
The revelation that firms from two of this country's biggest industries may have commissioned
corrupt PIs - without facing prosecution - will fuel concerns that corporations potentially
involved in the unlawful trade in private information have so far escaped proper investigation
This newspaper has previously revealed that law firms, insurance companies and financial
services organisations have used PIs for years to obtain a range of private data.
Information on the banks and pharmaceutical companies is contained in an explosive list of
corrupt PIs' clients handed to a parliamentary committee by the Serious Organised Crime
Agency (Soca). The list of 101 clients also includes some wealthy individuals.
Following weeks of damaging revelations in The Independent, Soca finally bowed to political
pressure earlier this week and privately released to MPs the historical details which its investigators
ignored for years.
Keith Sansum1
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one disaster after another
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