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"