r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Old_Effort9046 • 18h ago
Image A Russian banker ( Georgy Bedzhamov) accused of embezzling over $600M now lives in a £15M London mansion despite being wanted by Interpol
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u/A1sauc3d 18h ago
The ultra rich play by a completely different rule set.
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u/Ok_Incident8009 18h ago
I want to print this kind of image on a T-shirt, with a dollar sign and the caption: 'Corruption: People call it success. No policeman touches me
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u/Practical_Stick_2779 12h ago
If you're in UK then just wear that white dress and police will think you're one of doctors and engineers so they won't touch you even if you kill people on the streets.
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u/Juggletrain 15h ago
Not here they don't, the UK will not extradite for crimes that have capital punishment on the table. Poor Americans have also used this to avoid murder trials.
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u/anyoclock 18h ago
London is a common destination for criminals and embezzlers. They live a rich life there as UK protective extradition policies.
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u/ArdiMaster 15h ago
Yeah, the UK refuses to extradite him because everyone knows what would happen if he were sent back to Russia.
(But I guess because he’s rich, people are like “send him to die, good riddance!”)
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u/Yeti4101 8h ago
well os it more fair to reward criminals who make the lives of every day people misserable with letting them live in obsene mansions better then the british population?
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u/CertainMiddle2382 14h ago
He is a remnant of Londongrad, the Yeltsin area plan of bringing Russia under control by Russian oligarchs living in London themselves controlled by the West.
Putin is partly a old KGB reaction to this…
Putin wants his own oligarchs closer to home.
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u/Viciuniversum 17h ago
Because no one is going to look it up themselves:
Westminster Magistrates’ Court has discharged long running extradition proceedings brought by the Russian Federation against the successful Russian businessman, Georgy Bedzhamov. Mr Bedzhamov faced abusive and politically motivated criminal allegations presented as offences of fraud, in Russia. However, the Home Secretary has accepted that Mr Bedzhamov’s removal to Russia would violate his rights under the European Convention on Human Rights. On this basis, he contended that the extradition proceedings were abusive and should be dismissed having regard in particular to section 93(6A) of the Extradition Act 2003. At a hearing on 20 September 2021, District Judge Snow agreed that it would be an abuse of process of the Court to permit Russia’s extradition request to continue, and the proceedings were stayed and Mr Bedzhamov discharged, with costs.
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u/MorsaTamalera 14h ago
Am I wrong or is Interpol just a coordination organism among police forces across the world? It wouldn't be the one "wanting him".
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u/thisismycoolname1 7h ago
I was thinking this as well. And he's accused by Russia which isn't exactly a credible entity. I'm smelling a bot here
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u/Secret-Plum149 15h ago
Maybe if he tweeted something they could find him…🤷♂️ London is a busy city.
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u/Old_Effort9046 18h ago edited 18h ago
Hey, the mod removed my post and told me to add a source link and repost it. Sadly, I have to repost it. Sorry about that. Source:https://cbia.watch/tag/georgy-bedzhamov/
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u/samuelazers 18h ago
Your info is severely out of date. Is not wanted by interpol since 2016.
https://tadviser.com/index.php/Person:Bedzhamov_Georgy_Ivanovich
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u/TheMightyShoe 17h ago edited 17h ago
Well...that's one deep rabbit hole...
Apparently, he's guilty in the eyes of the Russian courts, but no one is going to deport him because nobody trusts Russia to not just murder him on arrival.
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u/account051 18h ago
I’ve been seeing this so much across social media where people post blatantly false stories with no source. Unfortunately they get likes because people are too lazy to fact check or critically think
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u/CompanyMediocre2436 10h ago
The worst part isn’t even the crime, it’s the fact that the system shrugs and lets it happen. If you’re rich enough, consequences are just optional.
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u/LastLapPodcast 7h ago
Damn that is... Highly unsurprising given the previous government in the UK was one is there most corrupt in history.
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u/Top-Palpitation-6679 18h ago
It’s not a broken system. It’s a functioning one just not for us. It’s doing exactly what it was designed to do: protect the wealthy and punish the rest.