'FinCEN' reports say big banks moved dirty money
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Source: Yahoo! News
Hong Kong shares of HSBC fell to their worst level since 1995 on Monday (September 21) after reports that it and other financial institutions had allegedly moved large sums of illicit money over two decades.
They revolve around documents leaked to Buzzfeed and shared with a global network of invetigative journalists.
Buzzfeed and other news outlets say it involves moving money for the likes of terrorists, drug kingpins and corrupt leaders.
The leak is reportedly made up of over 2,100 suspicious activity reports filed by banks and other financial firms with the U.S Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or Fincen.
The so-called Fincen Files allegedly show more than $2 trillion dollars worth of transactions from 1999 to 2017, all of it flagged as suspicious by the banks' own compliance departments.
Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/fincen-reports-big-banks-moved-063448514.html
HSBC and Barclays headquarters in Canary Wharf, London.
The two banks were among the top firms named in the ICIJ's FinCEN files as those involved in large-scale money laundering: https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/download-fincen-files-transaction-data/
bucolic_frolic
(43,364 posts)make life easy for big crooks, and difficult for little people. What better method of enforcement and control?
sandensea
(21,688 posts)I believe the ego is the root of all evil, rather than money.
It's just that to the ego, there's nothing more important.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Link to tweet
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Olga Lautman
@OlgaNYC1211
Maybe Deutsche shouldn't have been involved in allowing the Kremlin to fund terrorist and intelligence operations to take down the West. Not to mention all the drug trafficking and mafia global activities. Just saying
AFP news agency
@AFP
#BREAKING Deutsche Bank shares plunge 8% after media reports allege involved in money laundering
sandensea
(21,688 posts)They know that his occupying the Oval office, is the only chance they have at evading prosecution.
Same goes for Paul Singer and a bunch of other laundrettes.
Sneederbunk
(14,314 posts)sandensea
(21,688 posts)Money laundering usually goes unreported.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)JudyM
(29,294 posts)Alerted on as being dupe of this post from yesterday, and the forum hosts agree: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142585780
Please continue discussion in that thread.