Like Comment and subscribe. to learn more here is an affiliate link to a book about John Palmer https://amzn.to/2DFwixy John "Goldfinger" Palmer was one of Britain's most notorious fraudsters.He smelted half the gold from the Brinks Mat bullion raid at his home near Bath and went on to defraud thousands of people in Europe's biggest timeshare scandal. Last year he was shot dead by a hit man.The Veteran TV journalist Roger Cook was the first to expose Palmer two decades ago. Now he's back with new revelations about police corruption and a top secret surveillance operation on Palmer, codenamed Operation Alpine, that ran for 15 years from a top secret location at RAF Spadeadam in Cumbria.It was located far away from London because his criminal empire included parts of the metropolitan police force. We speak exclusively to an intelligence officer who was assigned to this surveillance operation and discover that Palmer's crime syndicate had become so powerful it had infiltrated every level of the criminal justice system with corrupt police officers, prison warders and even staff in the Crown Prosecution Service, in his pocket.