£11 Million spent - time to end?

Interesting bit... Snipped from link above.

Prosecutors said they received the written appeal over the summer holidays and it would now be passed on to the detectives leading the investigation in Portugal.

Hmm. How many more years do they have to wait til the twins are considered legally adults, and can be interviewed without parental consent....?

Seems no one has any idea of what OG are up to, especially the mcs, if they did, there'd be no mention of a special fund to find Madeleine if the case is shelved. If they knew about the request in July, they wouldn't have mentioned the "special fund" at all.
IMO

New round in the trial, new request from Op Grange.
Nice weather in October...

How come I'm not surprised?

parapono

patiently waiting for justice to be done in Lisbon

Just noticed the Star article has been heavily edited since about midnight when it first came out. 

McLawyers working through the night then.

Andrew wrote:Just noticed the Star article has been heavily edited since about midnight when it first came out. 

McLawyers working through the night then.

Thanks Andrew for the link, have now put the topic in Libel Trial forum to discuss there.  Does anyone have a copy of original article before editing?

I have read with interest comments about which of the two police forces is in charge of the case, PJ or Scotland Yard.
the answer is both, PJ is in charge of what may or may not have happened in Portugal (mainly the disappearance of Maddie I imagine) and Scotland Yard in in charge of what may or may not have happened in GB (fund and other things).
the two investigations are linked but they have separate remits.
Amaral suggested that sort of situation might evolve in the extract above and he was probably right.

First thoughts !

If your curtains were wide OPEN
but then you want to change this to Tight CLOSED and whooshing
you need a Spokesman to explain that there is no evidence that an intruder came through the window . . .

If you set up a Fund to search for your daughter
And people donate Millions believing it to be for searching for your daughter
But you squander millions on people pretending to be Detectives
and then you want to take money out of the fund, for whatever reason
You need a Spokesman to explain that you want to keep the money to search for your daughter.

And so on.

I can smell a video coming on here.   All the quotes are in the public domain.
Please suggest generously !

The whole thing is very odd, not long ago we had the story of McCanns to pump a million of their own money into the fund? Why would the fund be running at a loss?? I thought the book money was for the fund.

Article from March this year....



The parents or Madeleine McCann plan to plough their own money into the search for their missing daughter if police halt their investigation. Kate and Gerry McCann both 47 , of Rothley Leics, fear public donations have dried up as the search approaches its eighth anniversary. So they have pumped almost £1 million into a fund for Madeleine that would be running at a loss without their cash. The money came from Kate's book about Madeleine's disappearance in Portugal in May 2007 and the search for her. A top cop suggested this week the £10 million police probe into the case should be wound up. Met Police Federation chairman John Tully said "We no longer have the resources to conduct specialist inquiries all over the world"


https://maddiemccannmystery.forumotion.co.uk/t644-here-we-go-again-mccanns-to-fund-hunt-for-maddie-the-sun-29-3-15

So they have pumped almost £1 million into a fund for Madeleine that would be running at a loss without their cash. The money came from Kate's book about Madeleine's disappearance in Portugal in May 2007 and the search for her.

So the money is going FROM the book proceeds INTO the fund which according to the book was going to get all the proceeds FROM the book in the first place.
Yep, clear as mud.

It's starting to remind me of Father Ted's insistence that "the money was just RESTING in my account..."

Can't really see how the Fund can be running at a loss, as it doesn't seem to be doing anything much at the moment.

froggy wrote:Can't really see how the Fund can be running at a loss, as it doesn't seem to be doing anything much at the moment.

They must still have salaries (and others, only speculating here) to maintain. I would also imagine any donations must now be minimal, if at all.

costello wrote:

froggy wrote:Can't really see how the Fund can be running at a loss, as it doesn't seem to be doing anything much at the moment.

They must still have salaries (and others, only speculating here) to maintain. I would also imagine any donations must now be minimal, if at all.

Surely salaries would be shown in the company accounts?? I don't know about these things though, we need Enid.

Not sure if this tweet is relevant.
nesswozere@Nesswozere Aug 28

must be costing a small fortune to keep the bots busy all it is doing is showing us TRUTH is lurking#seerightthroughit#mccann.

Aha! That's where the money is going!
Well, you never know.

So they were pumping money INTO the account which should have been there in the first place
and now Mitchell is saying they have been taking money OUT to put in a Fund to Search for Madeleine, which is what the "Fund" was for in the first place

My guess is that Grange have found them with their hands in the till, and this is a pathetic pre-emptive defence strategy.

Al Capone, anyone ?

Absolutely PeterMac, they got him in the end. I have been reading some tweets today which if correct seem quite positive i.e  the P.J. deal with the case and Operation Grange handle the fraudulent fund.

It would be nice to think so, but if that were the case, why were SY in the Algarve last year, digging holes and questioning 'suspects?

PeterMac wrote:So they were pumping money INTO the account which should have been there in the first place
and now Mitchell is saying they have been taking money OUT to put in a Fund to Search for Madeleine, which is what the "Fund" was for in the first place

My guess is that Grange have found them with their hands in the till, and this is a pathetic pre-emptive defence strategy.

Al Capone, anyone ?

If only....

PeterMac wrote:So they were pumping money INTO the account which should have been there in the first place
and now Mitchell is saying they have been taking money OUT to put in a Fund to Search for Madeleine, which is what the "Fund" was for in the first place

My guess is that Grange have found them with their hands in the till, and this is a pathetic pre-emptive defence strategy.

Al Capone, anyone ?

It also makes you wonder where they are getting the money from to fight their battles against GA, unless someone is funding them to the tune of £hundreds of thousands.  Is that why money is being moved around in their accounts, probably from an offshore account into an account for fighting GA on the premise that it is yet another account for "searching for Madeleine".

froggy wrote:

costello wrote:

PeterMac wrote:So they were pumping money INTO the account which should have been there in the first place
and now Mitchell is saying they have been taking money OUT to put in a Fund to Search for Madeleine, which is what the "Fund" was for in the first place

My guess is that Grange have found them with their hands in the till, and this is a pathetic pre-emptive defence strategy.

Al Capone, anyone ?

Absolutely PeterMac, they got him in the end. I have been reading some tweets today which if correct seem quite positive i.e  the P.J. deal with the case and Operation Grange handle the fraudulent fund.

It would be nice to think so, but if that were the case, why were SY in the Algarve last year, digging holes and questioning 'suspects?

Not so sure here froggy, Dr. Amaral seems to think they were just showing off, personally I think they had to be seen to be going over old ground (pardon the pun). But I do believe both forces are working in unison. And at present I would imagine Dr. Amarals hands are tied, but I do believe he knows a lot more than he has originally stated. Again just my thoughts.

costello wrote:

froggy wrote:

costello wrote:

PeterMac wrote:So they were pumping money INTO the account which should have been there in the first place
and now Mitchell is saying they have been taking money OUT to put in a Fund to Search for Madeleine, which is what the "Fund" was for in the first place

My guess is that Grange have found them with their hands in the till, and this is a pathetic pre-emptive defence strategy.

Al Capone, anyone ?

Absolutely PeterMac, they got him in the end. I have been reading some tweets today which if correct seem quite positive i.e  the P.J. deal with the case and Operation Grange handle the fraudulent fund.

It would be nice to think so, but if that were the case, why were SY in the Algarve last year, digging holes and questioning 'suspects?

Not so sure here froggy, Dr. Amaral seems to think they were just showing off, personally I think they had to be seen to be going over old ground (pardon the pun). But I do believe both forces are working in unison. And at present I would imagine Dr. Amarals hands are tied, but I do believe he knows a lot more than he has originally stated. Again just my thoughts.

I don't think it is a point about "showing off" it may be a point that they had to show to all and sundry that they had done everything to try and find Madeleine whether dead or alive if a case ever gets to court.  They can't be then told that "they didn't search x, y, z areas" for a body or that they didn't interview every screwball that that McCanns' paid for mouthpiece or their paid "shills" threw at them.

Only my opinion of course.

Yes DFM totally agree. Maybe words were lost in translation here.