Precious little is the sad answer.
I tell the inside story in my forthcoming South African memoir
A Pretoria Boy (to be published in August by Jonathan Ball) of exposing that state capture and money laundering to a global audience under parliamentary privilege in the House of Lords. But that was more than three years ago.
I pressed the UK anti-fraud authorities to act against HSBC, Standard Chartered and Baroda banks – although global institutions, London-based and therefore falling under UK jurisdiction.
But despite some investigations and plenty of hand-wringing assurances from UK ministers, these banks (each prodigious money laundering conduits for the Guptas) escaped sanctions.
First ventilators, oxygen concentrators dispatched from the UK to India
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UK to send ventilators, oxygen concentrators to India in fight against Covid-19
The UK will be sending more than 600 pieces of vital medical equipment to India to support it in fight against Covid-19, the UK government announced.
The assistance package, funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, includes ventilators and oxygen concentrators from surplus stocks. The Department of Health and Social Care have worked closely with the NHS, as well as suppliers and manufacturers in the UK to identify reserve life-saving equipment that can be sent to India.
Recently, India has been reporting high number of Covid-19 cases and deaths while several reports of shortage of oxygen are also coming.
UK to send medical equipment to India in fight against Covid
By IANS| Published: 26th April 2021 5:40 am IST
London, April 26 : The UK will be sending more than 600 pieces of vital medical equipment to India to support it in fight against Covid-19, the UK government announced.
The assistance package, funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, includes ventilators and oxygen concentrators from surplus stocks. The Department of Health and Social Care have worked closely with the NHS, as well as suppliers and manufacturers in the UK to identify reserve life-saving equipment that can be sent to India.
Recently, India has been reporting high number of Covid-19 cases and deaths while several reports of shortage of oxygen are also coming.
The UK will be sending more than 600 pieces of vital medical equipment to India to support it in fight against Covid-19, the UK government announced. The assistance package, funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, includes ventilators and oxygen concentrators from surplus stocks. The Department of Health and Social Care have worked closely with the NHS, as well as suppliers and manufacturers in the UK to identify reserve life-saving equipment that can be sent to India. Recently, India has been reporting high number of Covid-19 cases and deaths while several reports of shortage of oxygen are also coming. The first shipment of equipment has already left the UK and it will be arriving to India in the early hours of Tuesday. Further shipments are due to follow later this week.
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