Criminality

Farming

1970s agriculture, albeit manual, and more effort intense, was very financially productive. Typical farm gate lamb prices were £30 per head and a new, basic Land Rover was £1800. 60 lambs sold equated to a brand new shiny Land Rover.

Nowadays lambs are typically £90 per head and a typical brand-new commercial Land Rover Defender is £50,000. Farms that once produced 10 or 15 churns of milk per day have been forced into industrial production, a factory with far greater threats of disease.

Supermarkets that are competing for the cheapest family weekly shopping basket, have driven down farm gate prices to such a point where family farms are no longer sustainable and have been forced to become larger units (with greater financial borrowing requirements)

Future young farmers have either left the industry (the average farming age is now 60 years old) or been forced to diversify away from the homestead. Vehicles and machinery, which were once bought outright are now having to be leased.

Traditional farmers have an often lonely lifestyle and see few people during the day other than the postman or occasionally the vet. They are reliant on neighbours for help in occasional tasks and will combine with them during harvesting or where many hands are required.

Farmers’ sons and daughters traditionally have no interest in education and have left school with little or no qualifications. Their aim has always been to continue the farming family chain and their expertise, taught from previous generations has been livestock ‘stockmen’ or arable. This is not seen as a business as in the true meaning of such but simply as a ‘way of life’.

These people are almost entirely reliant on their communities to help them get by. The local people are their trusted friends and colleagues and are ideal targets for organised criminals to attack as, even though they will be ashamed, the individual will be reliant on help and advice from, his accountant, solicitor, bank manager or hoodwinked by (corrupt) friends.

Corrupt farmers will have a good idea of any target victim’s bank borrowing, the value of the homestead, the value of the livestock and some creative ideas as to future development

 

Aberystwyth has always had a significant student population of around 10,000 and where the business community provided accommodation in large houses of multiple occupancies, and used to hold the university and students to ransom, over rent. Many flats and bedsits were bordering on (being poverty-stricken) slums.

This remained in place until the University built its own student village, Pentre Jane Morgan for first-year students back in the 1990s. Landlords were forced against their will, to become licensed, and the new competition forced down rents whilst properties had to be improved to attract tenants.

These townhouses were always greatly sought after because of often little effort needed with upkeep and maintenance, yet provided high financial rewards through passive income.

A small number of students would get up in the morning and are often drowsy and eagerly looking forward to going out tonight. As their bits are sore, they knew that they had had a good night but had no recollection of where or with whom (as they had been drug raped)

 

Business people fund narcotics

Since the early 1980s Aberystwyth has, due to the points that I have already illustrated, become a nucleus for criminality where business syndicates became involved in funding narcotics that were distributed throughout the area and in particular within the student population. These people only fund the consignments yet, are at arm's length of any narcotics. The financial returns per consignment are extremely lucrative.

Narcotics and other black market income were laundered through existing false front businesses to fund the backroom deals in purchasing property, such as townhouses, rental and holiday properties etc. which the corrupt gang member had been conspiring with others to steal at a rock bottom price.

Monetary sums were never the issue, properties and farms have always been sought after and been in short supply, their value has always, throughout the years increased and prized properties would be purchased irrespective of price. Criminals and their associates are reliant on increasing property values.

This additional income would always be off the trading books as deposits from narcotics could not be disclosed. Thus, income from rent etc could not be divulged within traditional trading accounts, yet, sooner or later these properties would go on to become security for further purchases.

Second sets of books are therefore un-taxable and in a short time, vast property portfolios become commonplace as further syndicate investments are reinvested in purchasing more property.