🚨NEW investigation from the #FinCENFiles
VEB Russian Bank Linked To Spy Ring
The Russian bank VEB has long operated in the United States — despite dozens of suspicious activity reports outlining concerns that it was a threat to national security.
buzzfeednews.com/article/scottp…
Here's a suspicious activity report that has never been revealed nor released that JP Morgan Chase filed with #FinCEN on VEB
documentcloud.org/documents/7215…
The @BuzzFeedNews Reporting team behind this one: @scottpham @TomBWarren me @a_cormier_ @jtemplon @jsvine @Richard_AHolmes @TanyaKozyreva @LoopEmma
#FinCENFiles
VEB told BuzzFeed News it has “never been involved in any illegal activities”
The bank said that our disclosure of SARs was illegal and that as it “cannot verify the authenticity” of the documents received by BuzzFeed News, it did not wish to comment further.
The SARs filed by other banks relating to VEB and its clients and sent to FinCEN document suspected national security risks. One raised the possibility that a VEB subsidiary helped bankroll Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria and facilitated an arms deal to a sanctioned country.
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