How are the British public expected to inform on these defaulters when many have fleed abroad? Wouldn't it be preferable to inform these countries where they are thought to be? What chance is there of them being repatriated to the UK if outside the European area?
You assume that if they tried to re-enter Britain their names would be on the wanted list
I hope the foreign authorities have more luck in getting those criminals extradited, than we have had in trying to get rid of Abu Hamza and Abu Qatada.
I would blame HMRC for it or at least for part of it. I used to work for a practice and one guy (our client) was manipulating with invoices for wholesale mobile phone business. Later own known as carousal fraud. He was reported to HMRC well in time but no action was taken. Later he fled to DUBAI with estimated 28million VAT owed. I remember talking to one VAT inspector during a routine investigation and all he said was that as long as he was getting his pay cheque he would not give a damn about what few people were doing.