Bell Pottinger

Sneeky said:
:D

ow eight months pregnant, she is understood to be preparing a case for unfair dismissal.]
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True colours as JZ/ANC chronies. Cry when they get caught hands in cookie jar (and blame someone else)
 
Good that Bell Pottinger is finally getting taken apart.

Hawks/NPA, time to get to work as the GuptaLeaks can be used as evidence...
 
flippakitten said:
Good that Bell Pottinger is finally getting taken apart.

Hawks/NPA, time to get to work as the GuptaLeaks can be used as evidence...
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Ha ha ha ha! Imagine the Hawks doing anything about this! Zupta's lapdogs! They won't do a damned thing about this.
 
UK government condemns Bell Pottinger for damaging its reputation in SA

Cape Town - Bell Pottinger has damaged the United Kingdom’s diplomatic reputation in South Africa, the British High Commissioner in Pretoria told the UK government on Thursday.

This emerged in the House of Lords on Thursday, where Lord Peter Hain asked the House of Lord’s spokesperson to the British Cabinet’s office Lord George Young whether government had any contracts with Bell Pottinger or if it was aware of their activities in South Africa.

This follows Bell Pottinger’s expulsion this week from the Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA) after the Democratic Alliance lodged a complaint for allegedly stoking racial hatred in South Africa as part of its work for the Guptas.

Bell Pottinger CEO James Henderson, chairperson John Sunnucks and senior executive David Rydell quit following the expulsion, according to Bloomberg.

The company has reportedly put itself up for sale following its expulsion, according to Bloomberg. It hired financial adviser BDO “to look at all options regarding the future of the business,” Bell Pottinger said in a statement on Tuesday.

Young stated officially that the UK government had no contracts with Bell Pottinger and had no knowledge of its activities.

“I have been in touch with our High Commissioner in Pretoria this morning,” he said. “He made it very clear that this had had a very damaging impact on our country’s reputation in South Africa, which is why I have gone out of my way to make it absolutely clear that the government was in no way involved, nor indeed were the staff of the High Commission’s office in any way involved in this particular contract.”

“The behaviour of Bell Pottinger in South Africa has been completely unacceptable,” he said. “We support the investigation conducted by the PRCA and Herbert Freehills Smith.

“I want to put on record that at no stage was Her Majesty’s Government in any way involved in their work in South Africa.”

Another lord asked whether Bell Pottinger was still on the Registrar of Lobbyists, a body that would allow Bell Pottinger to lobby government. Young said they have made inquiries with the registrar, but said legislation would not allow government to strike them off the registrar, unless they stopped being a public relations firm.

Call for UK to probe banks over Zuma and Gutpas

In his follow up question, Hain asked whether the UK government can investigate whether UK banks have had any dealing with the Guptas or President Jacob Zuma.

“Does the government agree that after running a pernicious and poisonously racist smear campaign in South Africa for the wealthy Gupta brothers, whom President Zuma has enabled to capture the state and bankroll his family and friends through corruption and cronyism, all Bell Pottinger’s work for British public bodies must be called in and reviewed.

“Since the respected former finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, has stated that the Guptas and the Zumas have benefitted from R6.8bn of money laundering, can the government investigate whether any British banks are involved, what action can be taken at a European level and will the minister agree to meet me about this?”

He asked Young for a ministerial meeting to discuss the matter further.

Young said he read the reports by the PRCA and Herbert Freehills Smith and said it did not point to money laundering.

“The company behaved unprofessionally and unethically,” he said. “If the lord has evidence of money laundering, then of course that should be investigated. We have some of the toughest money laundering regulations in the world.

“Earlier this year, Deutsche Bank was fined £163m for breaching those regulations. If there was evidence of money laundering, then we should investigate it and I wouldn’t rule it out at all a ministerial meeting with the noble lord (Hain).”

Bell Pottinger’s poisonous role in SA

Hain told Bruce Whitfield on Talk Radio 702’s Money Show last week that he became more aware of the situation after teaching as a guest at Wits Business School last week.

“I have talked to a lot of people and realised how poisonous Bell Pottinger’s role has been,” he told the radio. Fake news has been their speciality. The truth has been turned upside down. I am so angry about it.”
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http://www.fin24.com/Companies/Adve...er-for-damaging-its-reputation-in-sa-20170907
 
hmmm, wouldn't it be wonderful if international banks now start clamping down and closing gupta accounts too:D
 
Me thinks, if the British do start investigations into possible money laundering by either Zuma or the Guptas, we will not have any elections come 2019. There is no chance in hell JZ will step down, even if there is a slight possibility of him or the Guptas having to face criminal charges in the UK.
 
Temujin said:
hmmm, wouldn't it be wonderful if international banks now start clamping down and closing gupta accounts too:D
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Given the rules etc in the international financial markets, its entirely possible that this will happen
 
Adrianax said:
Me thinks, if the British do start investigations into possible money laundering by either Zuma or the Guptas, we will not have any elections come 2019. There is no chance in hell JZ will step down, even if there is a slight possibility of him or the Guptas having to face criminal charges in the UK.
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Incidentally I heard that the Americans are looking into this too, and apparently American law is very... how shall I say... liberal with any money that has ever touched American soil. So, they might reclaim ANY money that went through the American banking system that was fraudulently obtained.

Not sure if the British will go that far, but they might. At the very least, the Guptas now cannot use any bank accounts in the US or the UK. And they might still lose money that was previously in an American bank but is now somewhere else.

JZ will have diplomatic immunity. The only thing he has to worry about is the flow of money stopping.
 
Adrianax said:
Me thinks, if the British do start investigations into possible money laundering by either Zuma or the Guptas, we will not have any elections come 2019. There is no chance in hell JZ will step down, even if there is a slight possibility of him or the Guptas having to face criminal charges in the UK.
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Not "if". When.

“Does the government agree that after running a pernicious and poisonously racist smear campaign in South Africa for the wealthy Gupta brothers, whom President Zuma has enabled to capture the state and bankroll his family and friends through corruption and cronyism, all Bell Pottinger’s work for British public bodies must be called in and reviewed?

“Since the respected former finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, has stated that the Guptas and the Zumas have benefited from R6.8bn of money laundering, can the government investigate whether any British banks are involved, what action can be taken at a European level and will the minister agree to meet me about this? He asked Young for a ministerial meeting to discuss the matter further.”


Unlike our pratfull of clowns that keep seats warm and sleep in parly - when matters are tabled in Parliament in the UK - you can be assured that they wont be swept under the carpet. I smiled when I read this article. It was a big smile.
 
C4Cat said:
It's their own mess they are sorting out. We still have to sort out our own mess, sorry
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Nobody looking at who commissioned them, signed off the briefs and progress reports, nothing.
Pure comedy
 
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