Der britische GUardian berichtet, dass in Grossbritanien im Moment mehr als 5000 Bankkonten wegen des Verdachts auf terroristische Aktivitäten überwacht werden, 200 Konton wurden eingefroren: Bank deals of 5,000 terror suspects tracked.
The big four banks – Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds TSB and Royal Bank of Scotland, which owns NatWest – have been instructed by MI5 and the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control to monitor ’suspicious’ transactions involving named individuals and companies. Sources at Britain’s biggest bank, HSBC, said that ‚just north’ of 5,000 UK accounts had been ‚flagged up’ and were being watched as part of evidence-gathering against suspects.