money laundering
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Ukraine’s Massive Money Laundering Scam
Before looking at Ukraine’s government warrants, which gives the game away to anyone with even a rudimentary financial or mathematical background, let’s just quickly survey Kiev’s empty coffers. Continue reading
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HSBC is the 800-pound Gorilla in the Canadian Courtroom that No One is Talking About
The prosecution of telecommunications giant Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou on charges of violating U.S. sanctions policies with Iran has been very politicized from the outset and a bellwether in the decline of U.S.-Sino relations in an era of renewed cold war. Continue reading
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FinCEN – Isn’t it time to start making arrests?
By Rob Woodward: Have we not tired of their crimes? In 2008, the bank-led financial crisis led to Britain’s national debt increasing from 41 per cent of GDP in 2007 to 87 per cent in 2015. It led directly to a policy decision by George Osborne, backed by the Conservative government – called austerity. According… Continue reading
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Sugar and Spice and Everything Vice: the Empire’s Sin City of London By Cynthia Chung
The over 1000 point plunge of the stock market on Feb 27th and broader ruptures of the financial system last week have been yet another wake up call for those who have been contented so far to “live in the moment” of fast money. Continue reading
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Drug smuggling is HSBC’s raison d’etre By Dan Glazebrook
HSBC are in the news for attempting to suppress a report into money laundering. This is no surprise as the company’s entire history, right up to the present day, is one of financing drug cartels. Continue reading
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Video: Real Media: Rona Fairhead, HSBC and the BBC
Real Media interviews HSBC whistleblower Nicholas Wilson about the UK’s newly appointed International Trade Minister Rona Fairhead and her controversial past as BBC Trust chair and HSBC director (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Big Banks Started Laundering Massive Sums of Drug Money In the 1980s … And Are Still Doing It Today
For More Than 30 Years, the Big Banks Have Been Key Players In the Drug Trade. It has become mainstream news that at least some of the big banks are laundering staggering sums of drug money. But you may not know the scope or history of the problem. Continue reading
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Money Laundering and Offshore Fraud for the Rich, Economic Austerity for the Poor By Julie Lévesque
Drug cartels, fraud, tax evasion and money laundering are common answers to those questions. Despite this reality and even in this era of fiscal austerity, the question world leaders avoid is: why is secret banking still allowed? Are they capable of putting a term to it but unwilling to do it because of the benefits… Continue reading
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Who Will Win the Elections? “The Republicrats” By Julie Lévesque
Republicans and Democrats agree on core issues and only argue on technicalities. Obama, who was portrayed as a peaceful saviour in the last presidential elections, has demonstrated during his four years in office that he is not much different from his predecessor. Continue reading
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Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Extortion Against Standard Chartered Bank Shows Bias Against Iran By Danny Schechter
On the surface, it looked like a simple game of “Gotcha,” when New York Bank regulators blew the whistle on London’s Standard Chartered Bank for laundering money. The fact that the money was allegedly tied to Iran cast a major shadow on the allegations, given the Islamic Republic’s “bad guy” image in American policy circles. Continue reading
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Tessa Jowell Should Be Charged With Money Laundering By Craig Murray
Tessa Jowell participated as a full partner in the three time remortgaging of her home, paying off the mortgage with cash and then remortgaging. Continue reading
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Book Review: Getting to the meat of Skull & Bones By William Bowles
What constitutes a conspiracy? Well first off by definition it should be a secret. According to the chapter by Ralph Bunch, ‘Secrecy and our constitution: Whom do they serve?’ conspiracies are factions, minority factions that see all non-members of the conspiracy as opponents and their secrecy is to prevent all opponents from even knowing of… Continue reading
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By Any Means Necessary By William Bowles
When the law gets in the way of policy, for example the illegal export and sale of weapons, breaking the law creates the necessity to keep the operation secret. Enter the conspiracy. And in order to pursue its objectives outside the law, it has to form alliances with criminal organisations, create institutions for laundering the… Continue reading
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Iranies of Iran William Bowles
The role of the ‘secret team’ headed by ‘Ollie’ North and the involvement of guns for drugs; guns for the Nicaraguan Contras, the drugs for the youth of US cities, also involved a failed Saving and Loans bank used for money laundering, CIA ‘proprietaries’, assassinations and bombings, Ronald Reagan, the head of the CIA and… Continue reading