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Sir Richard Richard - what's wrong with providing a 'banking service' just because your criminal clients are long-established? Really?!

I suggest you look up the Irish terrorist who was doing just this in Manchester and Cheshire for years.

Or the Liverpool gangster who was supposedly a property developer until it was all revealed to be a scam for money laundering dirty money.

I'd make the City Solicitor liable too - but of course local authority lawyers merely say they carried out due diligence because a solicitor acted or the client.

That is the problem! If you're major gangster just get a compliant solicitor or architect to sign a letter or two and you get away with it for years it seems. At least Proceeds of Crime is starting to recover some ill-gotten gains, but even the National Crime Agency are only scratching the surface.