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Mix-Ansicht- O.T.: Wir sehen uns wieder in der Wäscherei...°°...! - Emerald, 27.12.2003, 08:22
- O.K., Doch vielleicht vorher noch bei McDonalds? - Emerald, 27.12.2003, 08:57
O.T.: Wir sehen uns wieder in der Wäscherei...°°...!
-->Wir wissen inzwischen als gesichert, dass Sadham Hussein, von seinen eigenen
Leuten im Erdloch gefangen gehalten worden ist. Der 'Freigabe' an die Allierten
gingen mehrwöchige Verhandlungen voraus, wie, wann und vor allem wer alles von
der Lösegeld-Summe über $ 25 Mio. erhält/beteiligt wird.
Erforderlich ist immer ein verdammt gutes Net-Work, denn Bezahler und Empfänger
wollen alles anonym abwickeln. Die Militärs können keine Blösse brauchen mit
irgendwelchen Kriminellen einen Deal gemacht zu haben.
Aus dem nachfolgenden Beitrag ist ersichtlich, wo sich jeder Betrag und jede
Summe, ohne Probleme und Fragen (schon gar kein Ausfüllen von Fragebogen)
in bar im Koffer oder mit diskreter Ueberweisung zur ANLAGE bringen KANN.
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Big Bad Banks to Big to Punish for being Bad
Dec. 25, 2003, 6:41PM
Money laundering: a wink and a nod
Experts fault banks as cash flows
Bloomberg Business News
Armed with a search warrant, a team of investigators for Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau raided a three-room office on East 54th Street on Feb. 4. The raid was part of a money-laundering investigation that led to an indictment against Beacon Hill Service, a company with 12 employees.
Beacon Hill had made wire transfers totaling more than $9 billion through its three dozen accounts at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., the second-largest U.S. bank by assets, Morgenthau says.
J.P. Morgan Chase wasn't charged with any crimes. No big U.S. bank has ever been prosecuted for money laundering. If convicted of laundering, a bank could be shut down under the Annunzio-Wylie Anti-Money Laundering Act of 1992.
"The money center banks are beyond regulation," says attorney Jack Blum, formerly a Senate investigator and a money-laundering consultant to the United Nations."There's no capacity to regulate or punish them because they're too big to be threatened with failure."
Beacon Hill, a company that wired money into and out of the United States for its clients, shut down a day after the raid. A dozen employees who'd worked at that location since April 1994 lost their jobs, including President Anibal Contreras, 45, a Guatemalan immigrant, Morgenthau says.
In June 2003, Beacon Hill was indicted by a New York grand jury for receiving and transmitting money without a New York State Banking Department license.
Morgenthau, 84, who says the Beacon Hill case is part of a continuing investigation of money laundering by his office, adds that prosecutors say the transfers were used for tax evasion and moving the proceeds of political corruption, including bribes, out of Brazil.
Money laundering has been illegal in the United States since 1986. Money laundering is the movement of funds through an account or a series of accounts, often held in several countries, to disguise income from crimes, such as drug trafficking, as earnings from legitimate activities.
In September, Celent Communications, a Boston-based financial research company, released a study that found money laundering through banks has increased in each of the past four years and is projected to reach $424 billion in 2004.
Morgenthau declines to comment on whether his office will charge J.P. Morgan. Blum, the former federal prosecutor, says that if history is a guide, J.P. Morgan isn't likely to be charged.
Kristin Lemkau, a J.P. Morgan managing director, says the bank's compliance department became concerned about Beacon Hill's accounts in 1997 and asked Beacon Hill to hire Decision Strategies, a New York-based consulting company that develops compliance programs and does investigations.
Decision Strategies, which Lemkau says found no evidence of money laundering, made suggestions on how Beacon Hill could strengthen its bookkeeping, she says. The bank accepted the consultants' findings and allowed Beacon Hill to continue wiring money through its accounts, she says.
Because both the nature of Beacon Hill's work and the location of its customers in Latin America pose high risks for money laundering, J.P. Morgan should have dug deeper, New York State Banking Superintendent Diana Taylor says.
U.S. banks have allowed or assisted in the laundering of dirty money for years, the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Senate's Committee on Governmental Affairs found in February 2001.
The subcommittee estimated in 1999 that U.S. banks condone or actively participate in the laundering of more than $250 billion a year, primarily from drug trafficking and organized crime.
"Virtually every U.S. bank we examined had opened accounts for offshore banks or banks in suspicious jurisdictions, yet few were paying attention or taking steps needed to make sure these banks weren't misusing their accounts," says Sen. Carl Levin, 69, D-Mich., who led the investigation."The result of these due diligence failures has made the U.S. banking system a conduit for criminal proceeds and money laundering."
The subcommittee found that in the 1990s, Citigroup's predecessor, Citicorp, had either allowed or assisted in laundering by the Juarez drug cartel, the biggest drug trafficker in Mexico, based in the border city of the same name; by the families of four foreign leaders who stole government funds; and by people and companies that had paid bribes to company and government officials.
One of the companies that used a Citicorp account to launder money was IBM, the world's largest computer company. IBM paid $300,000 in 2000 to settle Securities and Exchange Commission claims that it failed to disclose it had paid a $4.5 million bribe to directors of Banco de la Nacion Argentina to win a $250 million contract in 1994, according to the SEC.
IBM neither admitted nor denied wrongdoing. Senate investigators found that $1 million of the IBM bribe had been laundered through a Citicorp account. Citicorp was never charged or fined.
Today, almost three years after the Senate subcommittee hearing, too many banks and securities firms continue to allow money laundering, Levin says.
On Oct. 26, 2001, six weeks after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Congress passed the USA Patriot Act. It required that banks verify the identity of their customers and that they set up systems for spotting patterns of suspicious money transfers.
Banks are willing to launder money or turn a blind eye to customers who do because money laundering brings in hundreds of millions of dollars in fees, says Raymond Baker, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington.
Baker, 68, who has spent seven years researching money laundering in 23 nations, says banks aren't concerned about being prosecuted." `Don't ask, don't tell' is the prevailing norm in the banking community," Baker says, adding that banks are more interested in collecting fees than in following money-laundering laws.
John Byrne, senior counsel at the American Bankers Association, defends his industry's efforts to fight and report money laundering.
"We're not perfect," he says."I think we do have a good record."
Prosecutors don't bring money-laundering charges against the largest banks for fear of creating panic among investors and world economic turmoil, says Ian Comisky, a former federal prosecutor.
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DEN LETZTEN PARAGRAPHEN 2 x lesen, da liegt die Crux der Geschäfts-Grundlage eingebunden.
Emerald.
PS: Ich kann nicht verstehen, dass manche immer noch nach Nauru und Zypern disponieren?
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