Posted on 04/10/2018 1:41:15 PM PDT by Red Badger
The British offices of the Murdoch entertainment empire 21st Century Fox have been raided by investigators from the European Commission, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.
It is understood that competition watchdogs gained access to the company’s offices in Hammersmith, west London, early today to seize documents and computer records.
The precise nature of the confidential investigation, which is believed to be in its early stages, is unclear. The building is home to Fox Networks, the company’s channels business.
The European Commission has powers to raid businesses suspected of abusing their dominance of a market or being involved in a price fixing cartel. Investigators are able to take copies of documents and computer records, and ask for explanations from executives.
Sources at the 10 Hammersmith Grove development, which is shared with the tobacco company Philip Morris among others, said Commission officials were attempting to keep a low profile and that staff had been warned to keep details of the raid secret. It is understood that investigators are expected to remain on site through Wednesday and possibly into Thursday. The EU's competition enforcement is overseen by Commissioner Margrethe Vestager The EU's competition enforcement is overseen by Commissioner Margrethe Vestager
The raid comes at a extremely sensitive time for Fox as it seeks a remedies agreement with British watchdogs at the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to secure its heavily delayed takeover of Sky.
The CMA is considering an offer from the Murdoch family to spin off Sky News into a separate company or sell it to Disney to assuage concerns that full control of Sky will give them too much sway over the British media. The deal has already been approved by the European
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Gestapo.............
Brass balls abound.
Keep your powder dry.
We’re the investigators who raided armed with knives?
I bet Sadiq Kahn was involved.
Commie Deep State in UK shutting down all opposition.
They are ALL connected...........................
Full court press by the globalists.
Alas, the American public doesn’t know what they are surrendering.
Kristallnacht 2.0......................................
Nope...more like the Stasi. Read the book "Stasi" (can't recall the author's name) and you'll see Simon Wisenthal (the famous Nazi hunter) say that in his opinion the Stasi was worse than the Gestapo.
They were more efficient because they had a smaller population to work with..................
I've never been comfortable with the idea of media conglomerates.
It's like Howard Beale said in "Network".....
"And when the 12th largest company in the world controls the most awesome g______ propaganda force in the whole godless world, who knows what s___ will be peddled for truth on this network."
Yep.
Isn’t the BBC the dominant news caster in the UK?
They claim to be......They don’t like competition...............
Well, Tony Blair did ask Germany to help stop Brexit...
https://inews.co.uk/news/brexit/tony-blair-germany-brexit/
With the full support and assistance of the British government, no doubt!
They're getting desperate.
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