Sam Woods - Bank Of England - woodssam873@gmail.com

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from: Sam Woods <woodssam873@gmail.com>
date: Oct 16, 2023, 6:00 AM
subject: Re:
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Hello

Thanks for your response. I am Sam Woods - Chief Executive Officer of the Prudential Regulation Authority in the BANK OF ENGLAND.

Do understand that in a bid to explain the modalities of this transaction, I am sending you a very lengthy message which I indulge you to read carefully for better understanding and please make sure this transaction is highly confidential.

I am contacting you concerning a deceased client that has an investment he placed with our bank management almost 14 years ago. The content of this communication has to be treated with utmost confidentiality, to avoid unnecessary complications. I contacted you independently of our investigation and no one is informed of this communication. I would like to intimate you about certain facts that I believe would benefit the both of us.

In 2009, late Engineer Johannes came to our bank to engage in business discussions with our private banking division.

He informed us that he had a financial portfolio of (£4,000,000.00) Four Million Great British Pounds. Which he instructed us to (invest) on his behalf. I was the officer assigned to his case, I made numerous suggestions in line with my duties as the de-facto chief operations officer of the private banking sector, especially given the volume of funds he wished to put into our bank. We met on numerous occasions and discussed viable investment opportunities.

I encouraged him to consider various growth funds with prime ratings. I invested his funds into trading in Stock Market, Crude Oil and Lending with Profit Returns, as my specialty is to advise customers to invest healthy and yield good profit. Based on my advice, we spun the money around various opportunities and made attractive margins for our first months of operation, the accrued profit and interest stood out and my client was glad with the returns.

In mid-2011, he asked that the money be liquidated because he needed to make an urgent landed property investment requiring cash payments in Spain. He directed that I liquidate the funds and deposit it with a security firm in a private Bank. I informed him that the Bank would have to make special arrangements to have this done and in order not to circumvent due process, the bank would have to make a 7 % deduction from the funds to cater for banking and statutory charges. He complained about the charges but later came around when I explained to him the complexities of the task he was asking of us. Cash movement across borders has become especially strict since the incidents of 9/11. I contacted my affiliate here in London and made the funds available to the security firm.

I undertook all the processes and made sure I followed his precise instructions to the letter and had the funds deposited at the private Bank, which is a specialist private Bank that accepts deposits from high net worth individuals and blue chip corporations that handle valuable products or undertake transactions that need immediate access to cash.

This small and highly private Bank is familiar especially to the highly placed and well-connected organizations. In line with instructions, the money was deposited with a private Bank. The deceased told me he wanted the money there in anticipation of his arrival later that week. This was the last communication we had, this transpired around 25th October 2011. In July this year, we got a call from the Bank informing us about the activity of that particular portfolio.

This was an astounding position as far as I was concerned, given the fact that I managed the private banking sector I was the only one who knew about the deposit at the private Bank, and I could not understand why the Client had not come forward to claim his deposit. I made futile efforts to locate the Client. I immediately passed the task of locating him to the internal investigations department of Bristol & West. Four days later, information trickled in, apparently our client was dead. A person who suited his description was declared dead of a heart attack in Cannes, South of France.

As part of our duty, we made an effort to identify him, and confirmed the news about his death. The bank immediately launched an investigation into possible surviving next of kin to alert them about the situation and also to come forward to claim his estate. If you are familiar with private banking affairs, those who patronize our services usually prefer anonymity, but also some levels of detachment from conventional processes. In his bio-data form, he listed no next of kin.

Upon receipt of the deposit, I am prepared to share the money with you in half. That is, I will simply nominate you as the next of kin and have them release the deposit to you. We share the funds 50/50. This way there will be no need for you to think of traveling to lay claim to the money. We can fine-tune this based on our interactions. If you find no interest in this deal, please discard this mail. If my offer is of no appeal to you, delete this message and forget I ever contacted you.

Do not destroy my career because you do not approve of my proposal. I am a family man, I have a wife and 3 children. I send you this mail not without a measure of fear as to what the consequences are, but I know within me that nothing ventured is nothing gained and that success and riches never come easy or on a platter of gold. This is the one truth I have learnt from my private banking clients. Do not betray my confidence if we can be of one accord.

I await your response.

Regards,
Sam Woods.
Deputy Governor And Chief Executive Officer.
Bank Of England.