Submission to

the Foreign Bribery Inquiry

by 'Hope'

Dear Senators

I wish to sincerely thank you for the opportunity to comment on the ideas in the Terms of

Reference for your Inquiry.

I am one of the tens of thousands who signed petitions on Change.org by little groups that

are alligning and calling for justice and reforms and retroactive compensation. We're the

Victorians who tossed out a high profile Liberal before that State swung. We tackled the big

money in Queensland and NSW. We might be "Davids" against Goliaths, but we aim our

little pebbles rather well.

US style books and records laws:

Australians are sick of the corporate cover ups and bribes hidden in the books and records

and hidden behind arbitration schemes and "without prejudice" deals struck by huge teams

of lawyers for global Goliaths. Please investigate the latest trends in the prosecutions and

investigations and reports from China, Britain, and the USA.

Whistleblower Witness Protection from physical and legal bullying is vital :

Please investigate claims that a law society, that is under a governing board of directors

from mining and gas companies, does not believe a number of MPs and Candidates

suffered threats, break ins, 'spying', computer hacks, and helicopters almost landing on the

roofs in the lead up to the Queensland election. If these conflicted bastions are that blind,

remove the "Without Prejudice" deals and investigate the stories about $1,000,000 payoffs

on the law society watch to American witnesses in global accounting investigations.

Align Australian anti graft laws with international trends:

Please investigate ways to make graft illegal in ways that make it easier for international

agencies to extradite corrupt Australian managers and those who aid and abet them, like

accountants and lawyers and real estate agents, valuers and liquidators. The whole world

has had enough, including traditionally corrupt places. No longer can our CEOs say "but

that's how to get business done".

Eg from China:

Eg from Vietnam is their published Order of the Victorian Supreme Court order about our Reserve Bank scandal! Eg Agribank's death sentences:

In the USA, Australian bankers were arrested by the FBI, not ASIC or Australian Police. (How odd).

We know our Aussie police can arrest people, we saw them do it to the fellow on the 60 Minutes Show that exposed illegal bank dealings

(What a mess for the diplomats if Australian corporate crooks can't set foot in an international departure lounge ever again).

Company law reform:

What happened to acting in the best interests of the company? Please abolish the Business

Judgement Rule which is an excuse for pushing the envelope (complete with cash) too far

and getting caught. Shareholders and Customers should not pay the consequences for

management's risk taking.

Suppression Orders on the Media: Fiddling while Rome Burns:

Suppression Orders keep little people in the dark. Meantime there are massive numbers of

farm suicides, divorces, stress with domestic violence, homelessness, and a huge drain on

State and Federal coffers.

The social cost of the corporate gluttony should be paid by appropriate jail terms and claw

backs of the monumental bonuses taken by CEOs and managers and their entourage of

lawyers, real estate agents and other aider and abbetters.

Australia is now an internationally known white collar criminal's paradise, says the sleepy

head of IOSCO and ASIC, Greg Medcraft.

The bribery case exposed in David Murray's Financial Services Inquiry:

Please investigate the law society story about the prosecution of a global card company

because bribes and reserve bank papers got out from the financial arbitration ombudsman

into the public domain thanks to cover up that went wrong, it appears.

Last year David Murray's Financial Services Inquiry (FSI) was inundated with 6,500

submissions and the FSI published a report that was submitted to one of the Financial

Ombudsman schemes during its redrafting of its arbitration clauses. The report criticised the

bank run arbitration scheme and the way it was infiltrated and massaged to side with the

banks by, for instance, making pensioners ask police to get forged and falsified loan

documents. The scheme went on to expand - with ASIC's blessing - the bankers rights to

seize deposits, seize cattle, seize farm equipment and impose the gag clauses that

Senators object to. The bureacrats defied the Senate recommendations on the illegality

defence as well. Is it time to replace them all with US Treasury's Eliot Ness Squads?

The report also said foreign bribery was paid to political figures by a global card company

under the arbitration scheme that coincided with the Card coming off American-imposed

probation for its role in funnelling bribes to political figures around the world.

(Recommendation: ban bribes paid via credit cards).

The card was also about to be prosecuted by the American Department of Justice in a case

with Australian Reserve Bank documents.

Australian Reserve Bank affiliates were about to prosecuted for foreign bribery, and

newspapers claimed there was a decade of cover ups and inaction by ASIC.

RBA papers went to US prosecutors by the sound of things. A Judge in Victoria was about

to impose a super Suppression Order to gag the media about reserve bank people involved

in alleged cover ups, corporate regulatory in-action, and bribes paid to foreign politicians all

over the world.

There were also investigations by US Authorities to prosecute Australian global corporations

for foreign bribery of Australian figures from the local council level upwards. Those global

companies, and some of our regulators, have people on law society boards and boards for

water agencies (like all the ones that Premier Daniel Andrews sacked last year while

Senator Madigan heard terrible stories from farmers about the Murray Darling irrigation

scheme).

The published report claimed there were groups of people in the revolving door external

dispute resolution circle all too timid to blow the whistle on being leant on to cover up

decisions to side with the banks, act against customers, and to redraft its Arbitration

Clauses (I am certain you all know about the Bank Spy Scandal where a international

security firm spied on Senators and MPs and "The Arbitrator" who heard from

whistleblowers what was going on). At the time, the Senators looked into why these

External Dispute Resolution Services refused to compel banks to supply forged and falsified

documents. The senators looked into why ASIC Staff (who went to work at the Ombudsman

Arbitration Scheme) decide to expected Asset Rich Income Poor pensioners and families to

call Police to get bank documents hidden in law firm Privilege and Safe Rooms. Why

couldn't the bank simply hand over the forged documents, one could say.

The report also claimed that the global card company would loose its defence of a US

Prosecution because Australian Reserve Bank documents were crucial to the card's

defence.

The report also covered the latest US Prosecutors settlements that basically said 'no' to gag

clauses and said that if the bank paid the fine, then the bank and shareholders and

customers could hold the lawyers and management personally liable.

In the background, sudenly there were horrendous corporate thuggery tactics going on. The

Senate heard in secret about the need for witness protection. Is that what these corporate

thugs have to resort to? Isn't the cartel like set of buffers in the stacked decks enough?

Intriguely the report predicted the Australian-American company would lose the case

based on reserve bank findings, and the report predicted that the Shares would fall

precisely 16.3%.

The shares fell 16%.

The report predicted the shares would fall another 1.7%.

The shares fell 2% or $2 billion as predicted and as verified in law cases filed by

Shareholders who asked Australians why this report to David Murray was so accurate.

Look at the graph!

The law society's friends in the EDR Revolving Door were frightened and they, and their

Board Members in the banking and coal seam gas sector and corporate regulator sector

unleashed their dogs to search for SEC-registered Whistleblowers.

"Public Accountant" says it all. "Suddenly the FBI came out of the bushes".

There appears to be mad panick because of your Inquiries.

The Sydney Morning Herald thanked people. There are whistleblowers from NAB and

IOOF, CBA, Ombudsman, coal seam gas companies, doctors and medical staff, ANZ, etc

A famous QC asked another London based Australian QC and a famous actors' Human

Rights wife to charge Australian politicians.

The American SEC and FBI asked questions about a Bank bribery case in Sydney.

A huge Miner faces investigation for bribes paid in China, Cambodia, everywhere.

There are price fixing investigations into iron ore

There are political donation scandals

Word circulating the Internet says an Ombudsman can't handle the likely corruption

investigation into a law society and its Board of Miners and Oil and Regulatory people.

The law society can't find the boxes and boxes of documents, apparently!

Word says the chinese global anti corruption unit is involved.

The law society and bankers and banker-lawyers hated the new anti-gag agreements like these clauses.

The law people hated these American anti-gag prosecution agreements.

The law people wanted to know who was involved "down under". Witnesses and pro Independent anti corruption aupporters were harrassed and broken into, intimidated,

hunted. Your Senate had a special secret hearing the law society apparently wanted to know all about.

Stories abound about FBI sting operations and million dollar payoffs. (We'd all like the

banks to hand out $1,000,000 to victims of their cover ups)

The Victorian Ombudsman wrote she cannot tell Parliament if there could be corruption.

Hello, isn't that what these Ombudsman are supposed to do? Who drafted an Act that says

an Ombudsman cannot tell Parliamentarians that they might want to look into suspicious

things with a Royal Commission?

Also look into the intense interest by legal ethics experts to find boxes with strange things the police found when they evicted people from a farm.

The bank lawyers disagreed with text books about funnelling bribes under 'contracts' like credit card contracts and "no repayment required" mortgages. (We'd all love one of those).

There's no faith in the competancies of our corporate regulators. After a while, people can only conclude that these highly paid people must be 'in on' something crooked.

Piggy Banks aren't safe.

In conclusion:

1. Support BankreformNow's proposals and hold a Royal Commission;

2. Protect Whistleblowers

3. Have non prosecution agreements to encourage speaking up first or else

4. Remove ASIC, FOS, COSL and the ACCC from any consumer protection role.

Create State based Consumer Finance Protection Bureaus with badges, guns, and free

class action recovery for victims from the managers, lawyers, liquidators.

Yours

"Hope"