sounds like a great movie!
Guilty! Four blokes conned banks in £160m fibre broadband scam
Four men in the UK have been found guilty of swindling Barclays Bank and Belgian banking group KBC out of £160m in a super-fast broadband scam. Total Asset Finance Ltd (TAF), which went into administration in 2011, had been working with H2O Networks to roll out fibre optic cables across Blighty. H2O supplied fibre-optic …
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Wednesday 8th February 2017 13:54 GMT Bogle
if you need a business loan
I'd never heard of KBC so I looked them up. Perhaps I could just leave this here?
https://newsroom.kbc.com/if-you-need-a-business-loan-in-24-hours-kbcs-the-bank-for-you
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Wednesday 8th February 2017 16:42 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: @Doc Ock
>Was virgin wearing it's beard disguise again?
My police sources can confirm that, however rest assured they did meter out a jolly good bit of police brutality when apprehending the suspect:
https://res.cloudinary.com/www-virgin-com/f_auto,fl_lossy,q_80/virgin-com-prod/sites/virgin.com/files/rb_bruise_tea.jpg
They also add that they pissed in the tea.
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Thursday 9th February 2017 01:06 GMT Old Shoes
In this 2008 article H2O is mentioned, heralding their project, along with a comment from the recently cleared Elfred Thomas:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/08/bournemouth_fibre_city/
In this 2011 article they are mentioned as running into problems and being investigated by SFO:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/22/no_sewer_fibre_for_brisbane/