PANOPTICON Leak Alleges Shuttered Harwich Meridian Bank Was Front for MI6 Operations

The group known as PANOPTICON has released a cache of financial and incorporation documents purportedly obtained from the records of the Harwich Meridian Bank, shuttered twelve years ago following a regulatory audit. The documents appear to show that three subsidiary holding companies operating under the bank's umbrella may have been linked to the British Secret Intelligence Service.

Our Analysis: Allegations have suggested that MI6 used the bank for secret deals, off the books payments, and unauthorized covert operations that could be perpetrated without repercussion. The leak follows more lurid rumors that a “black network” of thugs, assassins and political radicals was headquartered out of the Harwich Meridian regional office in the United Arab Republic.