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New Estern Outlook - Jul 2015 - clik 1
Londres, maior lavanderia de dinheiro sujo da Terra. Centenas de bilhões de tráfico de drogas.
The UK National Crime Agency recently stated that “hundreds of billions of US dollars” are laundered through banks in the United Kingdom every year. London holds first place among world capitals with regard to the volume of drug trade and money laundering. Describing the global international drug trade network, Roberto Saviano, an Italian investigative journalist and author of Gomorrah, a book on the Neapolitan mafia, said a few days ago of the international drug trade that “Mexico is its heart and London is its head”. He also reminded readers of the British bank HSBC’s £1.2 billion fine for money laundering for a Mexican drug cartel in 2012.
The British HSBC Private Bank has been accused of facilitating money laundering and earned big profits handling secret accounts for arms dealers, dictators and blood diamond traffickers, according to materials released in February by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) from the non-governmental organization Transparency International. In recent years, in a number of cases relating to money laundering and tax evasion, criminal investigations into HSBC have been initiated by Argentine, Brazilian, Swiss and United States authorities.
However, there has been no such investigation in the UK, where HSBC is headquartered and where it is the country’s biggest bank in terms of assets. Journalists laid their hands on the first information about suspicious HSBC bank transactions in 2007 when Herve Falciani, a programmer formerly employed at HSBC’s Geneva office, stole their service database and handed it over to the French tax authorities and the French newspaper Le Monde; the latter, with the help of an ICIJ team of more than 140 highly qualified professionals from 40 countries of the world, conducted an analysis of the information they received, involving almost 110 thousand depositors from more than 200 states.
The journalists came to the conclusion that the British HSBC bank was actively helping its clients commit tax evasion and conceal financial transactions relating to illegal arms and drugs transactions, as well as diamonds smuggling. The preliminary information alone suggests that quite a few former and even active politicians from the UK, India, and African states, as well as members of royal families from Arab countries, were involved in criminal transactions for the total amount of $100 billion. This scandal with the Swiss Division clients of the British HSBC bank was then named “the Swiss Leaks.”
