Reply #4: It will be interesting to see if they all are charged [View All]

and with what offences. Possession of each of the chemicals, assuming there infact some, isn't an offence. Combining them is however an offence under our Exposives Act.

The Bank of England may have felt obliged to release the names , following instruction from Gordon Brown to freeze their assets, to prevent breaking the other laws as a side issue of following that instruction. The police may well be horrified at the release of their names but as their reason for being is to uphold the law there may well have been SFA they could have done to stop it.

Our news media are all using the terms "alleged" and "allegations". This seems to have been more so since the names were released. Protecting their rears I guess incase not all suspects are charged.

edit - actual Bank of England link on subject : http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/financialsanctions/sanctions060811.pdf