BREAKING: New ICIJ project #FinCENFiles reveals the world's biggest banks defied money laundering crackdowns to move staggering sums of dirty money for criminals and corrupt regimes (1/x)
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The project, the largest collaboration in ICIJ history, is based on 1000s of secret bank reports to US authorities obtained by @BuzzFeedNews.
It reveals the complete and systemic failure of the global anti-money laundering regime
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44 days before momentous US elections, why should you care about #FinCENFiles?
Because the trail of dirty money is a world tour of the decline of democracies, from Ukraine to Venezuela to Turkey - and the corrupt oligarchies rising from the ruins
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In Ukraine, Andriy Klyuyev was a top advisor to sanctioned ex-president Viktor Yanukovych & helped him crack down on pro-democracy protests.
The #FinCENFiles reveal how Klyuyev funneled millions to 2016 Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort
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In Venezuela, a suspected frontman for Minister of Petroleum and alleged drug trafficker Tareck El Aissami moved money through a Miami company that owned a 3,566-square-foot ocean-facing condo
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In Turkey, the network of gold trader Reza Zarrab moved $133 million in an Iran sanctions evasion scheme backed by autocratic president Recep Tayyip Erdogan - and whose discovery led to a purge of independent prosecutors by Erdogan
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The #FinCENFiles reveal how dirty money is waging war on democracy - and banks are standing on the sidelines letting it pass through.
And this is just Day 1! Tomorrow... a story I’ve been working on for a long time w @ArmandoInfo @UnivisionNews @MiamiHerald & more. Stay tuned!
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