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1.11 Immunity from prosecution
Members of the IELTS consortium perceive that they enjoy guaranteed political immunity from
prosecution for their global crimes because they are backed by powerful entities. These include
the global resources of a multibillion dollar transnational corporation (IDP Education Limited),
Australia’s state, territory and federal Governments in addition to public institutions that are
regulated by a national government that is a G8 member state (i.e. British Council and University
of Cambridge). To a large extent, this perception is unofficially correct. IELTS have never been
charged or prosecuted for examination frauds and other crimes such as extortion that they have
deliberately perpetrated in Australian, British and other jurisdictions on a massive global scale.
Blackie’s account of the British Council (IELTS) posing publicly as a diplomatic quasi government
authority is accurate. In 2015, the District Consumer Forum Chandigarh (India) petitioned the
British Council (IELTS) to attend court to respond to a consumer complaint lodged by an aggrieved
IELTS test-taker. The British Council did not attend this court hearing and lost on default.
“Much of the distress caused by this dreadful organization [IELTS] derives from the
fact that it is neither fish nor fowl. It presents itself as a government agency, a
diplomatic body, but is really a government subsidized business, as so many of us
know to our cost.”
David Blackie (2017), Managing Director of International Education Connect