Summary: The crimes of Sirius ‘Open Source’ — crimes that had many victims — don’t seem to interest the police enough to act fast (we expected this all along); as its 28-day time window approaches we revisit the matter and discuss some more

ABOUT four weeks ago I contacted the police and filed a report about Sirius fraud. It was perfectly factual, with no gaps in knowledge left to fill (as I had received formal documentation from the original sources after months of ordeals, mostly trying hard to get them to admit the issue and write official letters). All the witnesses were ready to testify and answer additional questions.

Police is in no rush to act. Cops would be involved if someone’s life was at immediate risk, but that’s about it. They drag their heels, just like pension providers do. Months ago I learn from a friend, a professor who worked here, that his female partner got punched in the face and despite the cops having CCTV footage of the incident and plate number (of the car in question) — in other words everything needed to summon the perpetrator of assault and convict her — the cops chose to do nothing, not even prosecute. See, here in Manchester it has become normal; if something gets damaged or stolen they typically just ask, “do you have insurance?” They don’t want to get involved. They might open a case, give you a number, and then add it to the tally, eventually generating some detailed statistics for taxpayers while asking for implicit consent to close the case (without resolution).

They said they aimed to make progress within 28 days. Well, early this coming Saturday it’ll be 28 days, so I plan to call them tomorrow afternoon and ask about progress. And no, don’t bother to put me down, I’m not expecting much to happen. With my low expectations, not due to the crime not being severe “enough” but the police not being effective enough (from personal experience), I all along expected many delays, little action etc. I had already prepared actions to come after police inaction. There are 5 steps to come after that, but we’re keeping them close to our chest for now. By the end of this series we hope to make it crystal clear that the system for accountability in the UK is not functioning, to put it mildly and politely. The same is true in most countries outside the UK, but we cannot put those to the test (for obvious reasons).

Let me explain the situation very simply, as this subject has been preying on my mind a lot lately, also in light of the EU and the EPO pushing an obviously illegal “Unitary Patent”/”Unified Patent Court”, Donald Trump getting away with everything, and various other examples of rich and/or powerful people being above the law.

Allow me to put it like this: Imagine you pay your tax money to the police (a portion of the salary) and you then spend a lot of time — even prepare and make expensive phonecalls — to gather evidence for the police. Months later you report and politely demand action, as the evidence supports the assertion that a serious crime took place and many people are victims of this crime, not just you. You’ve basically done the work cops were supposed to do, but you’re not an enforcer. You wait a month for action, but nothing happens. The cops not taking action basically signals to employers that embezzlement is OK (stealing workers’ money from their salary under a false pretenses of “pension”).

So you’re basically ripped off twice, first for cops who don’t enforce the law and don’t solve crimes and second by the employer. One might say that there’s money stolen by cops who enable these crimes while giving false assurances of “law and order”.

So what’s the point of the police?

They might as well publicly state that embezzlement has been informally legalised by inaction, in which case people need vigilantes to enforce rules or resort to force in case theft was detected.

Would that make us safer?

No, the vigilantes would soon be getting in trouble for “violence” or “sabotage” of rich people’s
“property”. As a reminder, the cops in the UK have emblems like the crown (worn on the helmet); they work for the Monarchy — yes, the same family that issued taxpayers’ money to victims of ‘Prince’ Andrew so that he doesn’t get arrested.

If white-collar crimes get treated so lightly, it’s hardly shocking that protesters get arrested routinely whereas the criminals they protest against receive police protection. In climate and antiwar activism this has become a universal truism. There’s this “tyranny of the white collar”, e.g. bailouts for abusive bankers (states habitually bail out the worst abusers instead of punishing them, encouraging further bad behaviour)

The perpetrators revel in this impunity while they buy and control the major media (to totally distort the narrative).

Remember that Sirius had many clients in the British government, so will cops lift the rock above this rattlesnake?

We still have a lot of material and ample evidence on this subject, but we shall continue another day in the future parts.

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Quite Likely Last Year of Sirius
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Summary: The situation at Sirius ‘Open Source’ is getting grimmer by the day or by the week; there’s almost nobody left at the company and those who are still there look for a way out, an escape from the sinking ship

THE crimes of Sirius aside, as the police investigates these too slowly (as expected all along and right from the start), today we take a quick look at the company as seen from the eyes of Microsoft (LinkedIn). There seems to be almost nobody left there; from what we can gather, it’s a very contingency-based semi-operational mode, trying to retain what’s left of the contracts. A couple of months ago a reasonably new employee was given more authority, as others left the company, creating a highly critical skills vacuum.

Will the company reach its 25^th anniversary? That doesn’t seem so likely. For privacy reasons the video above does not show the screen and instead I’m reading or explaining what I am seeing before me (on a separate computer).

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Sirius Disappearing Faster Than Police Holds It Accountable
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Summary: The crimes of Sirius ‘Open Source’ have caught up with the management, which is leaving in droves; but the British police has made no visible progress in over 3 weeks since a report was filed, in effect delaying enough for the company to vanish and hide some more

THE VIDEO above explains the latest situation at the company I left this past December. It stole money from employees for over half a decade. These employees had suspicions, but the company was evasive about the matter. Earlier this year we got all the formal confirmations (evidence) we needed and reported the matter to Action Fraud.

How about a police force that can allocate endless pounds to protect an old monarch but cannot even respond for nearly a month to a serious complaint of fraud, impacting many people and amounting to several prestigious cars (like the ones the CEO was amassing)?

The worry here is the company might change name or dissolve, then pretend to have vanished, then resurface under another name and legal entity/identity. It’s a worryingly common modus operandi, which mustn’t be tolerated by the police, the tax authorities etc. So we need to prevent that in order to protect others from abuse. There’s already [cref 171986 censorship happening] (gagging the victims!) and time is running out if the CEO is hiding money in all sorts of places, or even bank accounts of friends and relatives. This won’t end well and we shall pursue the matter till the bitter end. The video above says a lot more.

With the company decimated, will cops have anything left to salvage?

Summary: The above shows that Sirius ‘Open Source’ has lost the person who was most authorised to access and manage systems, not only clients’ but systems of Sirius itself; this means the company has about 3 full-time staff left (when I left in December it pretended to have 15 staff)

Summary: As we’ve expected right from the start, reporting crime (pension fraud) to Action Fraud (UK police) results in little action, no action, or very slow action (they say they aim to respond within 28 days); today we revisit the situation

ABOUT three weeks ago we formalised complaints to Action Fraud, which is like a division of British Police. The pension crime (embezzlement) of Sirius ‘Open Source’ was reported. The evidence was very clear. There are many victims and there are several more fallbacks here, in case the police drags its heels. We’ll spare details about those fallbacks, for strategic reasons. Either way, it is important to show how police in the land of famous monarchs actually deals with white-collar crimes that has many victims.

When you say something is illegal but fail to actually uphold and enforce the law, then it’s just a token or a “formality” (as this new article serves to illustrate). It’s a carte blanche to commit that crime and it rewards those who commit serious crimes against other people, objectively speaking.

Sirius has been trying to pretend to be a US company in recent years, likely for legal reasons (including the “Limited” in the UK). But no matter if it dubs itself SiriUS, SiriHK, SiriA or whatever… the chief is British, the loans are British, and almost all the staff is British. All those involved in the pension fraud — without exception — are British. This is a matter for British authorities, including British police, to investigate.

Remember that we as British taxpayers are entitled to get a good service from British cops as we pay their salaries, they basically work “for us” (or at least they’re supposed to, they’re expected to “serve and protect” the taxpayers). We are still waiting for as little as an E-mail from British police, but so far not even a call or a letter acknowledging they’re on the case or have made some progress. The sad thing is that we’re so cynical that this is what we expected and even told them.

In the next few parts we shall shed light on what various involved/impacted parties have to say about this, including legal facets of this conundrum. This is likely to carry on for several months more and perhaps even years if the Ombudsman gets involved. Inaction from cops and HMRC is a stain on the system as it emboldens the perception that those in power (like ‘Prince’ Andrew) are above the law and the rest of us are defenceless, rendered vulnerable for exploitation.

Stay tuned.

Internal documents show evidence

Summary: The finances of Sirius are dodgy; with at least three different shells (in at least two countries) and an unknown number of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), it’s hard to know where money comes from and where it is going to (even the company’s registered address isn’t authentic anymore)

AS noted this morning, the police is far too slow (if not reluctant) to investigate crimes of Sirius ‘Open Source’, so let’s examine the facts, based on the Sirius Business Case as it was presented 12 months ago.

Quite a few people were involved in the blunders and the crimes. We chose not to name them. Anyway, of note are the following parts:

Where did the surplus go? Another country? Seems plausible. There we go:

They don’t even mention the Gates Foundation because of the non-disclosure agreement, but it’s what likely drew the CEO to the US because, according to him, it was the “first Sirius US client” (strange, right?) and it was never mentioned anywhere in writing.

Several things are noteworthy and might be relevant to the police investigation. First, in March the CEO was publicly advertising that he had money (about 100,000 pounds per year to offer in salaries). So where does he hide the money? Where did that money come from? In the report he kept secret from us the finances in the US. Well, maybe he stashed it aside over the years and now he hides money in the US (from his ex-wives), who knows…

The only other possibility is that he fakes everything or that he advertises openings for which he cannot even pay a salary, which itself is illegal (that’s worse when viewed from clients’ perspective due to unmet SLAs).

In May last year the company said nothing about its “US” subsidiary having money or losing money. If it claims to still have money, then victims of the company’s theft may want to sue. Sadly for them, this past October the company changed the address of both UK ‘shells’ to a phony address and there’s no comment on the matter from the accountancy. This shell game won’t end well. With two grown up girls in the UK and two more young girls in the UK the CEO (two failed marriages) is probably chased for many other expenses. He is a financial fugitive in the US now. It’s not a pretty picture. Based on office gossip, there were also infidelity issues (hearsay but very likely).

Sunak already has his own share of financial scandals (his wife also)

“The Prime Minister promises to take the fight to the fraudsters by blocking scams ‘at the source’,” says Which? this week

Summary: The crimes of the rich (or white-collar crimes) are tolerated by our administration; not enough resources are devoted to tackling the most costly crimes, as the case of Sirius fraud shows (I’m a victim of this crime, as are my former colleagues)

ALMOST 14 days ago (2 weeks) I reported fraud to the police and got a reference number for the investigation. In less than 24 hours it’ll be officially a fortnight and they didn’t bother to contact me, follow up etc.

A saner system would do a preliminary check, freeze the assets of the company to recover stolen money, then pursue prosecution based on the evidence. In light of the impending “coronation” ceremony, this matters even more. They apparently have plenty of money/budget (the media says £250m) to protect a person in his 70s throwing a party for himself, but not enough to tackle actual crime (rather than hypothetical… or a mere risk).

“If they don’t respond,” said a colleague about Sirius ‘Open Source’ last month (he too was plundered/defrauded), “I should be able to make a small claims court claim online. I have proof from standard life saying I was not on the scheme and proof they took deductions from my pay, and a copy of the letter outlining the scheme I should have been on so should be reasonably straight forward.”

I can do the same. But the problem is that the company is ‘in hiding’. Downsides of such a course of action:

• they will dodge the legal process.
• we need to hold them criminally accountable (this is jailable offense).
• the company will claim to be broke, unable to recover the money.

The other victim asked: “What else do you have from Standard Life?”

We probably have what we need; that helps show they profited from the fraud too, but they are not directly accountable in this case.

“I have a letter from the IFA and some Standard Life booklets but nothing else,” the colleague said. I have the same. “If Standard Life simply never got contacted to enroll us, I can’t see there is anything else they can help us with.”

Yes, they cannot be held accountable, but they ought to be shamed for facilitating the scam. “If they did not follow protocols,” I said, “designed to prevent such pension fraud, then they breached rules and can be reported. But whether protocols were not followed I cannot tell you as I’m Not a Lawyer (IANAL). I suggest you go ahead and contact the company.”

It has been nearly a month now and the company refuses to even speak.

“I just looked at the fees for an online money claim through the small claims court,” the other victim said. “It’s basically 5% of the claim which could get quite expensive especially if there is no real company left to enforce against. Also I left just over [redacted] years ago so maybe out of time to make a claim.”

Just because a crime took place a long time ago doesn’t mean the police should not prosecute. Litigation is another matter.

Anyway, it’s now at the hands of the police. Let’s see what they do, if anything…

If police fails to take action despite all the evidence of the crime being sent to cops and put on their laps, then it’s fair to say that the police is enabling the crime. It is in some sense complicit by deliberate inaction. White-collar criminals would be delighted to know this; it means de facto immunity/impunity or a carte blanche to carry out more such crimes.