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The United Kingdom on Monday sanctioned 14 Russians who it said were complicit in the corruption uncovered by Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer who wasarrested and later died in prison after alleging Russian officials were involved a massive tax fraud. reuters.com/world/uk/uk-im…
Background 2014: The Silent Looting of Russia

occrp.org/en/investigati…
Dmitry Klyuev is ID’d as owner of USB in Russia and who the British gov’t said helped plan the$230M fraud.
"Corruption has a corrosive effect as it slows development, drains the wealth of poorer nations & keeps their people trapped in poverty.

It poisons the well of democracy.”
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The suspect is alleged to have been part of the so-called “Troika Laundromat” - a money laundering network linked to the former Russian investment bank Troika Dialog, which maintained a network of offshore companies with accounts in Baltic banks. abcnews.go.com/International/…
The Troika Laundromat enabled the flow of US$ 4.6 billion into the system and directed the flow of $4.8 billion out. Among the counterparties on these transactions were major Western banks such as Citigroup Inc., Raiffeisen, and Deutsche Bank.

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These Are the Banks Caught Up in the Russia Money-Laundering Scandal

Danske Bank
Swedbank
Nordea Bank
ING Groep NV
Credit Agricole
Deutsche Bank
 KBC Group Ukio Bankas
Raiffeisen Bank
ABN Amro Group
Cooperatieve Rabobank
Turkiye Garanti Bankasi

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Deutsche Bank Settles Over Ignored Red Flags on Epstein

The settlement covered compliance failures unrelated to Epstein.

It found that Deutsche Bank had not properly monitored transactions w/ Danske Bank Estonia and FBME Bank, a Tanzanian institution. nytimes.com/2020/07/07/bus…
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💰Raiffeisen Banking Group

Austrian bank’s ties to RosUkrEnergo suspicious

Firtash & Mogilevich

Allegedly under active Investigation today.
2010: “Confidential US diplomatic cables released on Dec. 1 by WikiLeaks disclosed concerns that one of Austria’s largest banks took bribes to disguise the business interests of a wanted ROC boss Mogilevich and a Ukrainian billionaire gas trader-Firtash.”

kyivpost.com/article/conten…
🔑The previously confidential messages, written by America’s former deputy head of mission in Austria Scott F. Kilner, also described the Austrian authorities as feeling “uncomfortable” with Raiffeisen bank’s role in Ukraine’s gas deal with Russia.

kyivpost.com/article/conten…
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@blakesmustache I respectfully disagree. 2017: Mueller Subpoenas Deutsche Bank Records Related to Trump
The subpoena concerns documents and data related to people or entities affiliated with the President
Thus was likely farmed out to SDNY &/or EDVA (counterintel)
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@blakesmustache It’s related to the Troika laundromat/ Daske Bank/DB/ Bank of Cyprus/FBME/ SwedeBsnk (SohoMoscow) etc Ergo the larger TOC international money flows.
@blakesmustache Deutsche Bank's U.S. Unit Kept Danske's Shady Billions Flowing
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💰FBME Bank 👉🏼Cyprus👉🏼Russia
👉🏼Aaron Banks 👉🏼Trump👉🏼Manafort

Ongoing Probe:

"Money laundering, terrorist financing, transnational organized crime, fraud schemes, sanctions evasion, weapons proliferation, corruption by politically exposed persons, & other financial crimes”.
Officers from the NCA, in collaboration with MI5 and US intelligence agencies, are examining previously undisclosed links between Aaron Banks and Russia, amid fears Moscow may have played a potentially sinister role in the #Brexit referendum. #AaronBanks
thetimes.co.uk/article/more-m…
May 2019 Cypriot police raided the premises of FBME Bank in Nicosia and in Limassol, looking for evidence of money laundering
occrp.org/en/daily/9851-…
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💰💦Trump Tower Projects

Bailed Out By Russia 1987-2014

Trump’s efforts to establish a hotel in Moscow go back at least to 1987, when, according to his book The Art of the Deal, he discussed the possibility with the Soviet ambassador Yuri Dubinin.
politico.com/magazine/story…
💰Trump Soho - Bayrock Group

Trump SoHo broke ground in 2007, typifies how the Trump Organization benefited from financing coming out of Russia and the former Soviet Union. Much of the project’s financing came from the Bayrock Group.
npr.org/2017/11/07/560…
📌Investigators are looking at whether Trump associates laundered financial payoffs from Russian officials by channeling them through offshore accounts.
bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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Deutsche Bank Faces Criminal Investigation for Potential Money-Laundering Lapses

nytimes.com/2019/06/19/bus… via @NYTimes
📌The investigation includes a review of Deutsche Bank’s handling of so-called SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY REPORTS that its employees prepared about possibly problematic transactions, including some linked to JARAD KUSHNER.

nytimes.com/2019/06/19/bus…
📌Ms. McFadden, a former anti-money-laundering compliance officer at the bank, said that she had flagged transactions involving Mr. Kushner’s family company in 2016, but that bank managers decided not to file the suspicious activity report she prepared.
nytimes.com/2019/06/19/bus…
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The New German Anti-Semitism

For the nation’s estimated 200,000 Jews, new forms of old hatreds are stoking fear.

#TOCvsWLD nytimes.com/2019/05/21/mag…
Rise of RW TOC v WLD 2

The steady rise of RW fascists/Autocrats/Nationalists/TOC world wide are challenging the peaceful World Order of Western Liberal Democracy post WII M

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💣MuellerEve💣

Uproar!!!

📌Mueller report will be released in the afternoon, lightly redacted, revealing detailed look at O of J probe.

📌Barr & Rosenstein will give a press conf & deliver the partisan Barr Report 2.0 at 9:30am edt

📌Mueller not invited.
💣MuellerEve2💣

DOJ will present MR w/out certain redactions available to certain members of Congress/staff "in an appropriate setting."

Barr briefed & had numerous convos w/ WH re MR so they had time to strategize & prep a rebuttal while withholding it from American public.
💣MuellerEve3💣

The delay was necessary so Trump’s lawyers could strategize & prepare the rebuttal & control the narrative ahead of public release.

Nadler is deeply troubled to hear the WH was briefed abt the MR b/4 congress or the American people.
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Deutsche Bank faces action over $20bn Russian money-laundering scheme

Exclusive: in confidential internal report seen by the Guardian, bank says scandal has hurt global brand

H/T ⁦@DrDenaGraysontheguardian.com/business/2019/…
💰Global Laundromat💰

Deutsche Bank was embroiled in a vast money-laundering operation, dubbed the Global Laundromat.
theguardian.com/business/2019/…
📌Russian criminals with links to the Kremlin and the KGB used the scheme between 2010 and 2014 to move money into the western financial system.

📌The cash involved could total $80bn, detectives believe.
theguardian.com/business/2019/…
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