It’s been discovered through details leaked from two secret internal police investigations, Operation Tiberius in 2002, and later through Project Riverside in 2008, how UK organised crime was able to infiltrate police and other public institutions‘at will’ through a network of Freemasonic brotherhood members in key positions inside police and judiciary. The implications of this discovery are far-reaching.
Their ability to penetrate state institutions was incredible. As an example, Operation Tiberius has revealed how London crime boss Tommy Adams and other members of ‘The Firm’ had infiltrated HM Prison Service, HM Revenue and Customs, City of London Police and the Crown Prosecution Service. It also revealed how jurors and prosecutors were easily bought off – or threatened to return ‘not-guilty’ verdicts, with “get out of jail free cards” purchased via brown envelope for a fee of £50,000. The Adams, from Islington, became Britain’s most feared gang in the 1990′s by controlling drug and protection rackets worth more than £50 million, reports the Mirror today.
To have this level of deep corruption within the two institutions key to delivering justice – police and the judiciary, will naturally shake public confidence, and for good reason. This exposure also demonstrates the ease in which investigations – including those into British MP child sex rings and Jimmy Saville could be covered-up, and how organised blackmail of participants would be possible. A frightening prospect.
The now question remaining is: if Masonic networks are secret, then how can the public know if this problem has been eradicated or not?
With organised crime, as with secret societies – ‘Omerta’ is the order of the day…
Tom Harper
The Independent
Secret networks of Freemasons have been used by organised crime gangs to corrupt the criminal justice system, according to a bombshell Metropolitan Police report leaked to The Independent.
Operation Tiberius, written in 2002, found underworld syndicates used their contacts in the controversial brotherhood to “recruit corrupted officers” inside Scotland Yard, and concluded it was one of “the most difficult aspects of organised crime corruption to proof against”.
The report – marked “Secret” – found serving officers in East Ham east London who were members of the Freemasons attempted to find out which detectives were suspected of links to organised crime from other police sources who were also members of the society.
Famous for its secret handshakes, Freemasonry has long been suspected of having members who work in the criminal justice system – notably the judiciary and the police.
The political establishment and much of the media often dismiss such ideas as the work of conspiracy theorists. However, Operation Tiberius is the second secret police report revealed by The Independent in the last six months to highlight the possible issue.
Project Riverside, a 2008 report on the rogue private investigations industry by the Serious Organised Crime Agency, also claimed criminals attempt to corrupt police officers through Freemason members in a bid to further their interests.
Concerns over the influence of freemasons on the criminal justice system in 1998 led former Home Secretary Jack Straw to order that all police officers and judges should declare membership of the organisation.
However, ten of Britain’s 43 police forces refused to take part and the policy was dropped under threat of legal action. In England and Wales, the Grand Master of the Freemasons is Prince Edward, Duke of Kent. The United Grand Lodge of England declined to comment last night.
The Independent revealed last week that Operation Tiberius found that organised crime syndicates such as the Adams family and the gang led by David Hunt were able to infiltrate the Met “at will”.
Asked to comment on the Tiberius report, a spokesman for Scotland Yard said: “The Metropolitan Police Service will not tolerate any behaviour by our officers and staff which could damage the trust placed in police by the public.
“We are determined to pursue corruption in all its forms and with all possible vigour.”
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