The great exchange fraud
Sir: Mr Wilson, the Great Train Robber, who has now been rearrested in Canada, arrived here three years ago. He immediately purchased valu- able real estate and built a luxurious home, and proceeded to live the social life of a successful businessman. It is obvious that he managed to turn a large part of his loot into Canadian dollars.
I emigrated to Canada as a law-abiding and poverty-stricken schoolteacher in 1959. I was allowed to transfer only a few hundred pounds of
my small savings. The remainder was frozen in England in an external account, to which I am allowed to transfer dollars, but from which I may not transfer sterling. During the past eight years I have remitted thousands of Canadian dollars to Britain for the benefit of my English relatives, in exchange for nothing at all. When one of my rela- tives wished to repay to me a modest loan he was not permitted to do so by paying sterling into my external account in England.
I am tired of being honest and poor and de- prived of the use of my own hard-earned money. Will somebody please tell me how Mr Wilson managed to evade exchange regulations as well as prison guards, so that I. too, may reap the rewards of crime? It is the only thing in England these days that seems to pay.
G. L. Bayliss 104 Leduc Apartments, 640-14th Avenue SW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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