I haven't read it, but "everybody" knows they do this. Their approach is that any businessman actually making money is not really after justice but just wants to write a cheque to get hassle off his back. They open up an "enquiry" and run it for a couple of years, which is enough to break down the endurance of most people. An inspector can run several dozen "enquiries" concurrently, and he will collect a minimum of £10k on each one. The inspector is not on a % of collections but he gets promotion points according to the total recovered which amounts to the same thing.
I think most modern countries have a BIK rule of some kind otherwise you could buy a plane using business funds, and just use it for private use. I think the CI and IOM don't have this
