According to the Cambodia Daily newspaper, all three have been imprisoned pending trial on charges of requesting false documents and acting as intermediaries between adoptive parents and a pregnant woman.
George Osborne, listed the measures, many of them previously announced: "We are going to tackle the growth in intermediaries disguising employment as false self-employment, [the avoidance of] employer national insurance..
"The defendant lied in order to conceal his contacts with Russians and Russian intermediaries during the campaign and made his false statements to investigators on January 27 , 2017 early in the investigation, when key investigative decisions, including who to interview and when, were being made," Mueller said.
It is possible to lie to other persons via intermediaries which are not persons, however (e.g., entering false answers to questions asked by a bank's ATM).
There was also a real possibility that intermediary 321 had encouraged and assisted witnesses to give false evidence (para 449).
In a parallel move, Jane Ellison, the financial secretary to the Treasury, said HMRC was also setting up a new "employment status and intermediaries" team and is "transforming its compliance approach" on issues including false self-employment.
The court found it likely (para 291) that intermediary 143 had "persuaded, encouraged or assisted" up to four witnesses to give false testimony.
The judges indicated that three prosecution intermediaries may themselves have committed a crime under the ICC Statute by potentially facilitating witnesses in giving false evidence.
Perhaps intermediaries cheated them.
And camels are plausible intermediaries.
