Charity box scam article

krappyrubsnif

<p style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; color: rgb(20, 24, 35);">(Repost)   If anyone has ever put old clothes into the Planet Aid charity bin in Stapleton Hall Road, near Londis (perhaps there are others in the area), they might like to read the article I've just had published on BYLINE. </p><p style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(20, 24, 35);"><a href="https://www.byline.com/column/41/article/560" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(59, 89, 152); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">https://www.byline.com/column/41/article/560</a></p><p style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 0px; display: inline; color: rgb(20, 24, 35);">It's free to read, but I'd be very happy to accept crowdfunding, likes, shares and comments for this rather complex piece of journalism!</p><div><font color="#141823" face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><img src="https://www.byline.com/s/files/articlephoto/michaeldurham.png.600x600_q85.png"><font color="#141823" face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><div><div><div><br><div><div>I've also rewritten and restructured this article today to clarify the sense.</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>

krappyrubsnif

Oh and by the way, I've just launched a whole website devoted to investigating this thing.<div><br></div><div>www.tvindalert.com</div>

gardener-joe

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krappyrubsnif

No particular connection to the petrol station.   They probably just asked if they could put on their land.   Maybe the clothes box company pays them a small percentage.   These boxes are all over the place, outside shops and supermarkets and in parking lots, quite possibly even in schools.  A few years ago Asda threw them off their store car parks because they were not a charity.<div><br></div><div>If you look on my site <a href="http://www.tvindalert.com">www.tvindalert.com</a> you'll see that their sister company in the US made $48 million tax free last year.  Not bad for a charity with offshore bank accounts and a boss wanted by Interpol, eh?<br><div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>

krappyrubsnif

Thanks for the comments I've had on- and off-line about this column and articles.  <div><br></div><div>If anyone is sufficiently inclined, would you please consider going to my page on the BYLINE site and making a little pledge towards my crowdfunding for these articles - just a quid would do (it's not the money - the more names I have of supporters and pledges, the more likely the articles will stay on the BYLINE front page, get read, get more pledges, and more shares.)   Support and share the dying craft of proper journalism!</div><div><br></div><div>I'll be posting another article on Wednesday, but nothing to do with this area (an Italian, who wasted six months of his life raising money for this), so I'll now shut up about it.   Thanks for reading!<br></div>

krappyrubsnif

<div>Posted to BYLINE: "Exclusive - cult members charged with laundering $12m in 'transnational criminal fraud' in Brazil"</div><div><br></div><div> https://www.byline.com/column/41/article/630</div>;

kreuzkav

Thanks KRS for highlighting this.  When I lived in Berlin last decade I thought, wouldn't it be good to have these in London?  Sadly, opportunists often take advantage.  But there's still good out there.  Weeding out is necessary and thanks to KRS and other investigative journalists, this is happening.