Google maintains that its breakneck growth will inevitably attract greater regulatory scrutiny, and that it's done nothing wrong in connection with other probes.
Yet though there is much to criticise about the way in which that privatisation was carried out, and much now to be reformed in the way the railways are run and regulated, to draw a connection between privatisation and the crash would be wrong.
His lawyer said his client had done nothing wrong, adding that if he did come into contact with any gang members it would only have been in connection with his responsibilities as a record company executive.