The scandal over SEGA’s involvement in a controversial police raid has escalated, with claims that the courts themselves are now participating in a cover-up.
More than 150 consoles were seized from a collector’s flat earlier this year. Under UK law (PACE), police must provide a proper inventory and inspection rights. Instead, the only list produced was hidden inside a “disclaimer of ownership” form, which would have forced the owner to disown the property. The list itself used SEGA’s own asset numbers.
Even the court that issued the warrant has now stonewalled, supplying only the applicant’s copy rather than the sealed judicial record, raising fears that no valid sealed warrant exists. Campaigners say this points to a wider cover-up within HMCTS.
Judicial review proceedings are ongoing, but the case is already being described as a “test of whether the rule of law still applies when a global corporation is involved.”
Attached are 2 screenshots, one of the disclaimer asking the seller to sign away his property rights, the other shows the police acting as judge in unequivocally stating they have decided the seller not the owner, despite previously asking the seller to sign away his ownership….
This is merely the beginning of the scandal, with hundreds more pieces of evidence available that will become public in due course suggesting that we are entering a period in time where privatisation of the police may become normalized.
More than 150 consoles were seized from a collector’s flat earlier this year. Under UK law (PACE), police must provide a proper inventory and inspection rights. Instead, the only list produced was hidden inside a “disclaimer of ownership” form, which would have forced the owner to disown the property. The list itself used SEGA’s own asset numbers.
Even the court that issued the warrant has now stonewalled, supplying only the applicant’s copy rather than the sealed judicial record, raising fears that no valid sealed warrant exists. Campaigners say this points to a wider cover-up within HMCTS.
Judicial review proceedings are ongoing, but the case is already being described as a “test of whether the rule of law still applies when a global corporation is involved.”
Attached are 2 screenshots, one of the disclaimer asking the seller to sign away his property rights, the other shows the police acting as judge in unequivocally stating they have decided the seller not the owner, despite previously asking the seller to sign away his ownership….
This is merely the beginning of the scandal, with hundreds more pieces of evidence available that will become public in due course suggesting that we are entering a period in time where privatisation of the police may become normalized.