Roger Cook Investigates: Goldfinger/Laundry Man II - John Goldfinger Palmer expose (2016)

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  • Over two decades since the Cook Report first exposed him, John Palmer had built a network of corrupt senior policemen, officers in the Inland Revenue and in the Crown Prosecution Service. He could always keep one step ahead of the law and clearly felt invulnerable. Even from prison, using his mobile phone he was still able to run his evil empire - expanding his money laundering activities on behalf of the Columbian cartels and the Russian Mafia - and also acting as a banker for other criminals, who would be charged a 25% commission on all their takings. Investigating him was especially difficult because of his corrupt police, HMRC and CPS contacts and the operation had to be run in secret from a remote RAF electronic warfare base in Cumbria.
    The programme was able to obtain a number of top-secret reports and to speak anonymously to one of the investigating officers. He had worked in conjunction with the Spanish police who were legally able to tap Palmer’s mobile phone and were able to track his money laundering and other criminal ventures, information they shared with their British counterparts. The Spaniards estimated that by the time of his death he was worth £600 million.
    However, he had so many enemies that he was eventually assassinated in the grounds of his luxury home in Essex. The local police initially said he had died from complications arising from recent keyhole gall bladder surgery. They ignored the ambulanceman who suggested that he had actually been shot multiple times (as he had been) and therefore did not secure the crime scene. There were suggestions that this might have been deliberate. Investigating officers now have as many as 16,000 suspects and little or no prospect of prosecuting any of them.
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Комментарии • 187

  • @stephenlapper9958
    @stephenlapper9958 Год назад +20

    It's now 2022 and Roger Cook has not been knighted. Disgrace.

    • @williamrae9954
      @williamrae9954 4 месяца назад +1

      Should have started a "Cha-ridy"

  • @MrFlyingguy
    @MrFlyingguy Год назад +11

    Roger, you used to make my evening highly enjoyable and one could say, paved the way for decent investigative journalism, i thank you and have always respected and loved your work, this 2nd epiphany is more than well received.

  • @bigbernie7260
    @bigbernie7260 Год назад +38

    Palmer's voice alone is worth a 30 year sentence.

    • @bennym5244
      @bennym5244 Год назад +1

      Yes I was shocked.

    • @brianconway100
      @brianconway100 Год назад +3

      In the recent bbc drama 'The Gold' he was portrayed with a strong Bristol accent, even though he grew up in Solihull. He doesn't seem to have much of an accent of any kind here.

    • @mannhamma805
      @mannhamma805 Год назад +1

      😂😂 quality

    • @jackcalder6561
      @jackcalder6561 Год назад

      😅

    • @rkent06
      @rkent06 11 месяцев назад

      It would be hard for him to threaten you without bursting out laughing

  • @davehanna6180
    @davehanna6180 Год назад +13

    just listened to a podcast about Palmer, very intelligent bloke , Roger Cook was a one off he fronted anyone and also knowledgeable , maybe some of the old bill nowadays should be more like Roger Cook

    • @jackcalder6561
      @jackcalder6561 Год назад

      Hardly a criminal genius

    • @davehanna6180
      @davehanna6180 11 месяцев назад

      @jackcalder6561 ahh you must be top top top level ,I bow to you ,course Palmer was levels above most , it took the ob nearly 20 years to nick him , but if you say nothing more than a nomark who am I to judge ?

  • @benradley4895
    @benradley4895 Год назад +10

    Roger Cook, the only journalist that is worth listening to. How come he got sacked from BBC ? oh yer, that’s why 🤣👍

  • @BlackDahlia776
    @BlackDahlia776 Год назад +8

    Roger Cooks not scared by death threats.

  • @LulaJake
    @LulaJake Год назад +30

    I am staggered that Roger Cook is still alive. He must hold the record for most death threats.

    • @seanmwh
      @seanmwh Год назад +1

      Its bad for business I suppose killing police and journalists bad newsbut I bet Cook had to be a bit careful

    • @williamrae9954
      @williamrae9954 4 месяца назад

      New Zealand is the place to stay...why the WEF mob are building compounds there!

  • @chiefrocka8604
    @chiefrocka8604 Год назад +17

    Essex Police’s not suspicious
    Yeah just 6 pops from a illegal piece
    Nice one Essex Police 😂

    • @gwaponobby
      @gwaponobby Год назад

      Not bent just not straight.

    • @KovietUnionDefector
      @KovietUnionDefector Месяц назад

      Same police that investigated the death of Diana's Police body guard.

    • @RussellJamesStevens
      @RussellJamesStevens 14 дней назад

      Word came down from the very top. LEAVE IT ALONE. Job done. Essex police had no option but to comply.

  • @maureenshaw8633
    @maureenshaw8633 Год назад +15

    There will never be another Roger Cook. Brings so many memories as a child watching infront of the telly and infront of the fire 🔥 no other journalist will ever put their lives in danger with criminals and other people who wrong do others. Journalists will go to war zones which is scary. But Roger Cook was 1 in a million. God bless him. 🙏 cracking guy who takes no shxt 😂 😂 that says it all in my eyes 👀. Well done Roger

    • @maureenshaw8633
      @maureenshaw8633 Год назад +1

      Also palmer deserved everything he got good riddance

    • @bennym5244
      @bennym5244 Год назад +1

      When you saw those knee high white socks we knew there was no messing about. No big talk just action. Thank you Cookie!!!

    • @Misspaulalondon
      @Misspaulalondon Год назад

      Agreed I loved him! ❤

    • @gavinstrachan1373
      @gavinstrachan1373 4 месяца назад

      I remember roger cook when I was child great guy missing him on t.v. he's still looking well happy memories watching t. V. 1970s family round t.v.

  • @loveStellalovebritain
    @loveStellalovebritain Месяц назад +1

    Cook is definitely the best crime reporter ever I remember watching cook report in the 90s brings back memories well done Roger never failed us.

  • @carlosdeno
    @carlosdeno 2 года назад +18

    Palmer became a liability. They are allowed to operate, then when they sail to close to wind and risk reveling those at the top, they are taken out.

    • @alanwann9318
      @alanwann9318 2 года назад +1

      Exactly! There is a good book out on this, he just about owned Teneriffe laundered money for Columbian drug dealers, The time share fraud was a part of this ,there is hidden cash in the mountain areas. This was well known in shady circles indeed inc the Newspaper Tycoon fraudster who stole a pension fund /U.K. laundering it through Palmer then supposedly suicide on his yacht. You can imagine he provided a service for a huge commission. I have read a number of books on British crime, I think the thieves are useful fall guys to crooks in suits.

    • @dollydiddums7889
      @dollydiddums7889 Год назад

      Interesting 🤔
      But just who are those at the top

    • @alanwann9318
      @alanwann9318 Год назад +2

      @@dollydiddums7889 watch sermons room .Walter Veitch he tells all and backs it up. Photos ,quotes

    • @dollydiddums7889
      @dollydiddums7889 Год назад +1

      @@alanwann9318 Cheers Alan I'll take a look 👍

    • @dollydiddums7889
      @dollydiddums7889 Год назад

      @@alanwann9318 I took a look , nothing there that I haven't already heard before . I sort of feel that to get the pure water you must go to the source higher up the mountain , as for religions well they were created by man ! Of course their is something higher but not in the western sense ...

  • @loneranger5928
    @loneranger5928 Год назад +6

    If he was being monitored 24/ 7 by the Police surely they should have some insight of what was happening. The gunman knew the. spot not covered by CCTV strange one weeks point in his security.
    The Paramedics one report gun shots but was overruled by the Senior Paramedic that it was down to keyhole surgery dose not add up . It did suit the Police and the gunman no need for a crime scene.
    Extraordinary the surveillance did not pick up the threat on his life.
    I feel sorry for the people who lost their money and had their life turned upside down by this man and his associates.
    Roger Cook one fearless journalist

    • @ahar7624
      @ahar7624 Месяц назад

      Wouldn't be the first time surveillance missed a murder and that could be due to something nefarious or it could be just incompetence...I know what I would lean towards

  • @UltimatelyEverything
    @UltimatelyEverything Год назад +11

    What a legend Roger is how he's still alive and going strong i'll never know and he looks good for a man who was in his in his 70's during this time.

    • @ericsuperstar746
      @ericsuperstar746 Год назад +3

      I get what you meant by you saying still alive I thought the same how did he have to balls to do what he did and having contracts on him he’s brilliant

    • @CARLIN4737
      @CARLIN4737 Год назад

      hes 94.

  • @jacksonirving4594
    @jacksonirving4594 Год назад +7

    Old cookys disguises were brilliant, nearly as good as Jeremy beadles.

    • @jamesobrien1440
      @jamesobrien1440 Год назад

      What used to always get me about Beadle was he had a beard, that was his de facto look, however he always insisted on applying a fake beard on top as a disguise?!?

  • @haroldsteptoe4456
    @haroldsteptoe4456 2 года назад +13

    Worked for the intelligence services in some capacity. Outlived his usefulness then became a liability.

  • @user-dp6cw9po5k
    @user-dp6cw9po5k 2 месяца назад +1

    Staggering to believe It's Now Been 30 years since Roger Cook's confrontation with Goldfinger a.k.a. John Palmer!

  • @davidbaker8957
    @davidbaker8957 Год назад +4

    I loved to know what roger thinks of today so called journalism? Fair play times been good to him he’s hardly changed.

  • @clarkedurrant1081
    @clarkedurrant1081 Год назад +3

    Brilliant great program

  • @beefchops1400
    @beefchops1400 Год назад +4

    That animal won’t be missed….in the end his own greed cost him the only thing you really have…your life!

  • @chiefrocka8604
    @chiefrocka8604 Год назад +7

    If roger cook the man on the telly was doing it now he’d be the biggest thing
    Roger Cook Crimebuster

  • @anthonyrowe6101
    @anthonyrowe6101 Год назад +3

    He's still alive on witness protection

  • @ericsuperstar746
    @ericsuperstar746 Год назад +7

    Hahahaha Roger you look good grey I grew up with ur tv series and looking back then I didn’t even know how brilliant the cook report was I think the uk took you for granted you must have really massive footballs

  • @seanmwh
    @seanmwh Год назад +5

    Palmer had it coming to him I doubt the police care who ironed him out

    • @gwaponobby
      @gwaponobby Год назад +2

      Could have been the cops. Obviously they were bent and didn't notice six bullet holes.

  • @boum62
    @boum62 2 года назад +10

    Essex Police were obviously in on this - I cannot stop laughing at part 23.03 - it reminds me of the "This is david Lander / Harper"
    take offs with Stephen Fry and Tony Slattery around this time - ! Imagine missing 6 bullet holes in the chest LOL

  • @dowdallerno1
    @dowdallerno1 8 месяцев назад +1

    Essex police and the ambulance service must have been on the square too. 🤔😔

  • @tomobrien8417
    @tomobrien8417 2 года назад +6

    He owed the big boys and kept putting them off, his time was up years before his death.

    • @michaelharrison3602
      @michaelharrison3602 Год назад +3

      He knew too much about too many people

    • @Will21st
      @Will21st Год назад +2

      if he was greedy with the civilians he was greedy with the fellow crooks... express ride towards destination death.

  • @jerryhenderson2895
    @jerryhenderson2895 8 месяцев назад +1

    At 28.06 John and Dennis New step off his private plane laughing...Don't see Roger Cook approaching them...strange

  • @martiniv8924
    @martiniv8924 2 года назад +5

    He tripped and fell down the stairs Governor 😅 where’s all of his 600 million ??

  • @Stef23441
    @Stef23441 2 года назад +14

    The police done it

    • @jwr04CFC
      @jwr04CFC 2 года назад +3

      Bang to rights mate

    • @Craig-xr1bw
      @Craig-xr1bw 2 года назад +6

      They had 2, to many off them in his pocket, if he spoke they would have all went down,

    • @lynussss
      @lynussss Год назад

      No different to rangerover murders, essex police most corrupt in UK

  • @scottishchris6985
    @scottishchris6985 2 года назад +6

    great content bro, loved the CR bk in the day, used 2 watch it with my old man👍💯

    • @hmq9052
      @hmq9052 Год назад +1

      Bro? Are you a west coast American rap artist?

  • @frankcarlos6762
    @frankcarlos6762 Год назад +5

    guys the police were in involved in it making million with him

  • @johnmc3862
    @johnmc3862 2 года назад +5

    Corruption is still rife.

  • @bennyblanco936
    @bennyblanco936 Год назад +3

    Maybe the english cops + crims didn't want the Spanish cops lookin and finding stuff not meant to be found - evidence, paperwork, names, money trails - stuff they could have kept hidden, lost it or overlooked it on purpose if he was being investigated in UK? Wouldn't put it past them to tie up a loose end, a possible liability, unwanted attention (Essex, range rovers + a dark lane)!?

    • @bennym5244
      @bennym5244 Год назад

      The public still think the Hatton garden robbery was just about a bunch of old ex cons getting hold of some Tom foolery. The minute they got what was really ordered Palmer no longer had his ace card.

  • @whodoyouratemore
    @whodoyouratemore Год назад +1

    The way the BBC portrayed them as jack the lad criminals was wrong

  • @jamescook9775
    @jamescook9775 Год назад +4

    A Spanish court can you imagine disorganization.

    • @gwaponobby
      @gwaponobby Год назад

      I can imagine the corruption.

    • @dowdallerno1
      @dowdallerno1 8 месяцев назад

      To be fair it was the British judiciary that "screwed" up and gifted him 30 million. But they were probably in the same lodge 🤔😉😔

  • @Aristotelezz
    @Aristotelezz 4 дня назад

    I always understood the gold was discovered by accident at the heist and it was not the aim. That means Palmer must have became later involved...

  • @JAK-cx1de
    @JAK-cx1de Год назад +2

    TOP BLOKE.

  • @Aristotelezz
    @Aristotelezz Месяц назад

    I always understood that the gold was discovered by accident during the heist and it was not the aim. That means Palmer must have became later involved...

  • @greatescape7735
    @greatescape7735 2 года назад +4

    He was being 'monitored 24/7 by police.

    • @boatingmanchester
      @boatingmanchester 2 года назад +1

      Yeah for 16 yrs from a military base in Cumbria and yet he was taken out I can smell something

    • @gwaponobby
      @gwaponobby Год назад

      That doesn't sound illegal does it? LOL

  • @dylandanczak9241
    @dylandanczak9241 2 месяца назад +1

    Russian mob/oligarchy definitely had a hand. Especially in England. They're ruthless and terrifying

    • @KovietUnionDefector
      @KovietUnionDefector Месяц назад

      Now they all sit under English sounding names in the Lords thanks to Boris Johnson.

  • @stephenbrown7843
    @stephenbrown7843 Год назад +5

    Worst kept secret in the underworld who done it!!!

    • @thislife3655
      @thislife3655 Год назад

      Who was it?

    • @bigbernie7260
      @bigbernie7260 Год назад

      @@thislife3655
      Billy Blundell.

    • @thislife3655
      @thislife3655 Год назад

      @@bigbernie7260 I take it they had a grievance?

    • @bigbernie7260
      @bigbernie7260 Год назад

      @@thislife3655
      The Blundells were ruthless and fearless.

    • @CARLIN4737
      @CARLIN4737 Год назад

      @@bigbernie7260 Essex Boys too?

  • @fredflintstoner596
    @fredflintstoner596 2 года назад +8

    Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view!"
    Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam."
    Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
    Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
    Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
    Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
    Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
    Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"

  • @gavinstrachan1373
    @gavinstrachan1373 4 месяца назад

    Great video keep coming

  • @roynewport5397
    @roynewport5397 Год назад +2

    Amazing Palmer lived in Bath as does Cook now.

    • @CARLIN4737
      @CARLIN4737 Год назад +1

      They were neighbours. Rumour had it he made a hole in the fence to keep an eye on him?

    • @f.dmcintyre4666
      @f.dmcintyre4666 Год назад

      @@CARLIN4737 🤣😂😅

    • @MyTing775
      @MyTing775 2 месяца назад

      Ide live in Bath if money no object.😊

  • @dannyx2737
    @dannyx2737 Год назад +1

    That death goes in the book of "he had it coming" nevermind

  • @watkinsd1975
    @watkinsd1975 11 месяцев назад +1

    The way Roger explains everything for the lay person is sheer perfection.

  • @guy4469
    @guy4469 Месяц назад

    No body scairs me more than KENY KNOY ,i worked in tenerife in 1988 2000. and Athens and holland ,

  • @paulbliss835
    @paulbliss835 Год назад +3

    You want to look into Mohamed jamil derbah his asociate in tenerife

    • @gwaponobby
      @gwaponobby Год назад

      Good shout.

    • @wakeylad68
      @wakeylad68 Год назад

      I spoke to derbah in his own shit hotel [ponderosa] about palmer and he was a bit cagey but seemed friendly enough but this was 5 years ago and he was about 70

  • @guy4469
    @guy4469 Месяц назад

    When i worked tenerife ,i got £20 a couple did about 6 a day/ 5 days a week in 1988,I loved bob and brenda/ ken and sheila/ ,derrick and joyce / mayvis and Arnold .They got a bottle off whisky and £20 just to attend then they stayed 3 hours getting the sales pitch they couldnt leave .

  • @DarkLordDiablos
    @DarkLordDiablos 2 месяца назад

    At the end of the day they knew he had been assassinated but didn't care because of his past.
    They were happy he was gone so just made up a reason so they could close the case and that's how it should have stayed.
    I mean do w really want to waste money on investigating the murder of a hardened criminal who did the same to others?
    Just reclose the case and file it away.

  • @alidavidson3229
    @alidavidson3229 Год назад

    i dont get this am i not understanding ,he tells the burmese triangle persons that he wants all to be legal ?so what s the deal or do i just not understand what laundering is????its possible

  • @nipperparr6709
    @nipperparr6709 2 года назад +5

    He got whacked for robbing the gold

  • @CARLIN4737
    @CARLIN4737 2 года назад +1

    Very good.

  • @jamescook9775
    @jamescook9775 6 дней назад

    why would you by a time share just buy it

  • @anthonydowling3356
    @anthonydowling3356 2 года назад +3

    Karma is a bitch .

  • @kingkong81icloud
    @kingkong81icloud Год назад +1

    Police did it

  • @haydnburkinshaw1949
    @haydnburkinshaw1949 Год назад +2

    His still alive he is trust me

    • @Peter-ix1ym
      @Peter-ix1ym Год назад

      Where is he then? New identity?

  • @NewMinority
    @NewMinority 5 дней назад

    His mrs arranged that shooting😂 bet she’s on that boat now with Tyrone

  • @hughrankin3889
    @hughrankin3889 2 месяца назад +2

    Watching this is an eye opener but just think .there's bigger gangsters and crooks in our midst ,POLITICIANS

  • @ladyofspain1
    @ladyofspain1 Год назад

    What about Peter Ivory , he was one of their master money man, Peter owes half a million in Tenerif and works at Hansons in gibrater, peter ivery came from Bristol and has a broad Bristol accent,,,,, look to the Colombians for his killer!!!

  • @jeztickles4361
    @jeztickles4361 Год назад

    Police knocked him off

  • @paulcowell7588
    @paulcowell7588 Год назад

    Essex police....what a mob...!!

  • @bargainwallart653
    @bargainwallart653 Год назад

    Ask David Corbett Pickles fame he knows

  • @dotherightthingbro
    @dotherightthingbro Год назад

    33 code in this is telling.

    • @f.dmcintyre4666
      @f.dmcintyre4666 Год назад

      Yea? Like what ? Icke is always on about this mob ? On the Square and such......

  • @kimschrder6238
    @kimschrder6238 Месяц назад

    Karma.......

  • @andypandy3352
    @andypandy3352 2 года назад +1

    Faked his own death maybe,,,

  • @phineasgosalbez4024
    @phineasgosalbez4024 2 месяца назад

    Revenge hit karma bites back

  • @SuperJammygit
    @SuperJammygit 9 месяцев назад

    Roger playing Russian roulette

  • @Swat-ed5bt
    @Swat-ed5bt Год назад

    Police cover up, as usual..

  • @utesvans5989
    @utesvans5989 Год назад

    Coppers shot him

  • @Bendog300
    @Bendog300 Год назад +1

    You can Rob granny's pension savings and get rich but Rob the establishment and ur day will come.

    • @f.dmcintyre4666
      @f.dmcintyre4666 Год назад

    • @gwaponobby
      @gwaponobby Год назад

      He did rob the Grannys' pension funds. He ripped off thousands of them the bastard.

  • @okasur1
    @okasur1 2 года назад

    I met Roger Cook briefly in Bath once and he was quite surly. Perhaps he is suspicious of everyone...

    • @papaspipe6167
      @papaspipe6167 Год назад +4

      Maybe he could just tell you were a wrong un!

    • @pommygeezer9309
      @pommygeezer9309 Год назад

      Everyone is generally suspicious of everyone.

    • @PibrochPonder
      @PibrochPonder Год назад

      He probably has PTSD from all the people hitting him over the years.

    • @f.dmcintyre4666
      @f.dmcintyre4666 Год назад

      Probs hungover or had a headache.............

    • @LordBingham1
      @LordBingham1 3 месяца назад

      well, i think i'd be a bit surly if i met you in a bath......

  • @bjornmarley5670
    @bjornmarley5670 7 месяцев назад

    Jools Holland

  • @BullyBoxer
    @BullyBoxer 2 года назад +1

    They don't breed them like Dave and John Palmer anymore , so a head of their times .

  • @briangearing841
    @briangearing841 Год назад +1

    Roger cook is No1 like he series

  • @Rich.H68
    @Rich.H68 Год назад

    Notorious grass apparently, no wonder he got offed

  • @joehorridge1395
    @joehorridge1395 Год назад

    If I ad that above my eye ad cut it off

  • @JAB771
    @JAB771 Год назад

    Let’s hope it was some ordinary hard working Joe that Palmer ripped off with a Spanish property investment. He was as crooked as one can get, you play with fire, you get burnt 🔥 Shame 😂