{"id":132232,"date":"2015-07-07T12:12:02","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T12:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=132232"},"modified":"2015-07-07T12:12:02","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T12:12:02","slug":"hsbc-fires-6-employees-for-staging-mock-isis-execution-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=132232","title":{"rendered":"HSBC fires 6 employees for staging mock ISIS execution video"},"content":{"rendered":"

SIX bankers were sacked yesterday for pretending to behead an Asian workmate in a mock IS execution \u2014 while yelling \u201cAllahu Akbar\u201d.<\/p>\n

The HSBC workers filmed the sick stunt while on a team-building exercise then posted it online.<\/p>\n

The video shows them dressed in jumpsuits and balaclavas similar to those worn by the Islamic fanatics and using a coat hanger as a pretend knife.<\/p>\n

The \u201cassassins\u201d laugh and joke as a colleague, who has been named as Saf Ahmed, kneels down to be \u201cexecuted\u201d.<\/p>\n

One banker then yells: \u201cAllahu Akbar\u201d \u2014 Arabic for \u201cGod is great\u201d \u2014 which IS executioners scream as they murder hostages.<\/p>\n

The film was posted on Instagram. It was later deleted but not before it was seen by appalled co-workers.<\/p>\n

HSBC yesterday sacked all involved and apologised.<\/p>\n

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\"Saf<\/div>
Saf Ahmed, middle, with two colleagues on away day. We are not alleging they were involved in the mock execution<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The six men were on a day out at Teamworks Karting track in Birmingham organised by HSBC.<\/p>\n

In the seven-second video, five men in balaclavas stand behind kneeling Mr Ahmed, who is in an orange jumpsuit.<\/p>\n

As the men chant and yell, one raises the coat hanger above the \u201cvictim\u2019s\u201d head and another holds his shoulders.<\/p>\n

Kidnapped British aid workers Alan Henning and David Haines were both wearing orange jumpsuits when they were beheaded in Syria by IS.<\/p>\n

It is thought the HSBC men were in a Birmingham-based legal team. A source said: \u201cIt\u2019s shocking they would think this is funny.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"HSBC<\/div>
HSBC headquarters in Birmingham Jamie Lorriman<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

HSBC said: \u201cWe do not tolerate inappropriate behaviour.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs soon as The Sun brought this video to our attention we took the decision to sack the individuals involved.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an abhorrent video and HSBC would like to apologise for any offence.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company has recently been engulfed in a money-laundering scandal and last year was among five banks fined \u00a32billion for rigging foreign exchange markets.<\/p>\n

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Source: The Sun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SIX bankers were sacked yesterday for pretending to behead an Asian workmate in a mock IS execution \u2014 while yelling \u201cAllahu Akbar\u201d. The HSBC workers filmed the sick stunt while on a team-building exercise then posted it online. The video shows them dressed in jumpsuits and balaclavas similar to those worn by the Islamic fanatics […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":132233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-132232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/132233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}