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Originally posted by JohnnyCanuck
Has there been any consideration of the fact that haulage firms are so ofter...how shall I put this?...Mobbed-up?
Originally posted by Korg Trinity
Don't think we need to consider that angle anymore since the trail leads to a company with an anual turnover of around 19 billion....
Korg.
In December, Alan Barr, who runs BHP Transport in Cledford Lane, also said he thought the closure could bankrupt his small haulage company.
Originally posted by FatherLukeDuke
Originally posted by Korg Trinity
Don't think we need to consider that angle anymore since the trail leads to a company with an anual turnover of around 19 billion....
Korg.
They are separate companies. Alan Carr's business is tiny, and run by his family:
www.companiesintheuk.co.uk...
It's also going to be bankrupted by a road closure:
In December, Alan Barr, who runs BHP Transport in Cledford Lane, also said he thought the closure could bankrupt his small haulage company.
I hardly think this would be the case if it was part of some global empire.
Originally posted by Korg Trinity
It's a subsiduary... Of course it's a seperate business.... Subsiduries have to balance thier own books, and yes subsiduries can go bust.
Originally posted by FatherLukeDuke
Originally posted by Korg Trinity
It's a subsiduary... Of course it's a seperate business.... Subsiduries have to balance thier own books, and yes subsiduries can go bust.
Subsideries are not separate businesses. By definition a subsidiary is a company of which more than 50% of the voting shares are owned by another corporation.
Alan Carr's BHP Transport has nothing to do with the BHP Hilton, the massive mining firm.
Alan Carr's business was started by him, and is run and owned by his family, and you can see from the Companies House link that they borrowed money from the Royal Bank of Scotland.edit on 22/11/10 by FatherLukeDuke because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Korg Trinity
Perhaps subsidiary is not the correct word to use in the business sense, let’s just say that there are links between the two companies...
BHP Billiton does fit the bill of Foundation X...
Originally posted by FatherLukeDuke
Originally posted by Korg Trinity
Perhaps subsidiary is not the correct word to use in the business sense, let’s just say that there are links between the two companies...
I fail to see any. Have you any evidence? Lots of companies share the same names.
BHP Billiton does fit the bill of Foundation X...
Which bits of Lord James' description does it fit?
Anyway, why would a global mining company behave in such a strangle manner? Getting small-town businessmen to contact doddery Lords to offer £17bn in investment? It could just invest in the UK like everyone else does - by buying government bonds, or bidding on contracts.
Originally posted by Korg Trinity
You don't know what associates Alan Carr has or who he knows.
The short answer is I am just as much in the dark as anyone else about the motives behind the Foundation X offer.
Originally posted by Misterlondon
reply to post by Korg Trinity
Good work!! Now the alarm bells are ringing a little.. How does this guy have access to billions of pounds??
For want of a better name, I shall call it foundation X. That is not its real name, but it will do for the moment. Foundation X was introduced to me 20 weeks ago last week by an eminent City firm, which is FSA controlled. Its chairman came to me and said, "We have this extraordinary request to assist in a major financial reconstruction. It is megabucks, but we need your help to assist us in understanding whether this business is legitimate". I had the biggest put down of my life from my noble friend Lord Strathclyde when I told him this story. He said, "Why you? You're not important enough to have the answer to a question like that". He is quite right, I am not important enough, but the answer to the next question was, "You haven't got the experience for it". Yes I do. I have had one of the biggest experiences in the laundering of terrorist money and funny money that anyone has had in the City. I have handled billions of pounds of terrorist money.
Originally posted by bigbomb456
reply to post by FatherLukeDuke
By the same token could this guy's story be utter BS as well?
Originally posted by Korg Trinity
Originally posted by FatherLukeDuke
Hilarious, the trucker with £22bn to spare!
Barr said his girlfriend knew nothing of the offer: "I don't want her thinking I'm going crazy, do I?"
Mirror newspaper
No, Alan, we don't want your girlfriend thinking you are crazy. Though of course everyone else does.
I don't think Lord James will be showing his face much after being fooled by this clown...
It's short sighted to think that the money is his directly.
He is likely someone whom is being used as a safe bet go between, someone that is a model subject and cannot be attacked by anyone.
I am conducting some research now and will report back anything I find.
Korg.