to ask a few questions about where mr zahawi s wealth comes from. he has been a very successful person, by all accounts, has a lot of money, so people have naturally ta ken some public interest examinations of that money, but that was simon and i wrote about the hmrc investigation for the first time. so that was the first we heard about it. that piqued your interest, dan neidle, and you started looking up, looking at it. how much pickup at that time was there in the wider press about the story, dan? so, my initial findings, let s call it a tax anomaly, it looked to me like a naive attempt at tax avoidance. a very experienced former hmrc inspector said it looked like a man in the pub tax avoidance, here s a clever way to avoid tax, but it doesn t work, and that is what i thought. tax avoidance isn t illegal? tax avoidance is not necessarily illegal, no, that is correct. it looked to me like someone had done something thinking tax would be avoided but actually
asked and done various reports over the years, going back even a decade, to ask a few questions about where mr zahawi s wealth comes from, he has been a very successful person, by all accounts, has a lot of money, people have naturally taken an interest in public interest examinations of that money, but that was when we heard about this hmrc investigation for the first time. that piqued your interest and you started looking up, looking at it, how much pickup at that time was there in the wider press about the story, dan? there in the wider press about the story. dan? there in the wider press about the sto , dan? , ., , story, dan? so, my initialfindings, let s call it story, dan? so, my initialfindings, let s call it a story, dan? so, my initialfindings, let s call it a tax story, dan? so, my initialfindings, let s call it a tax anomaly, - story, dan? so, my initialfindings, let s call it a tax anomaly, it - let s call it a tax anomaly, it looked let s call it a tax anomaly, it
by all accounts, has a lot of money. so, people have naturally taken some public interest examinations of that money, but that was that was when simon and i wrote about the hmrc investigation for the first time. 0k. so, that was the first we heard about it. that piqued your interest dan neidle and you started looking at it. i mean, how much pick up at that time was there in the wider press about the story, dan? so, my initialfindings, let s call it a tax anomaly. it looked to me like a naive attempt at tax avoidance. someone, a very experienced former hmrc inspector, said it looked like man in the pub tax avoidance, where someone does something thinking, oh, here s a clever way to avoid tax, but it doesn t work. and that s what i thought. and, of course, tax avoidance isn t illegal. tax avoidance is not necessarily illegal. no. that s correct. it looked to me like some had done something thinking tax would be avoided, but actually i was really confident it wouldn t have been avoided.
that s not appropriate. and the local mp isn t happy, either. we ve already got severe traffic problems in dartford. we ve already got very bad air quality in dartford. and their actions simply add to it. that s why i say it s very counter productive of them. these so called environmentalists think that they are somehow helping the environment by their actions, they re not. they re deluded and they re causing nothing but misery for local people. the recently appointed home secretary says the government s new public order bill, which is apparently going through parliament, would crack down on such protests. just stop 0il says more than 450 of its members have been arrested through more than two weeks of action, but they re warning to expect an escalation rather than a climb down. john donaldson, bbc news. jon jon donnison, bbc jon donnison, bbc news. up to 30 former uk military pilots are thought to have travelled to china to train members of the chinese military. the ministry of
in value enormously. every year we are taking another cut, cut, cut. the 5% on offer at the moment is yet another cut in real terms. tomorrow unions are expected to vote to coordinate any strike action. this winter could see the greatest industrial action in a decade. some union leaders predict a million workers will walk out. up to 30 former uk military pilots are thought to have travelled to china to train members of the chinese military. the ministry of defence says the practice isn t illegal, but it is trying to deter pilots from taking part. the pilots are often offered large amounts of money to share their knowledge. our security correspondent gordon corera has more. has caused amaze. that these former