#USA #NorthKorea #WashingtonDC #Trade #LEAK
It was revealed on the 23rd that two major US banks had traded a total of about 175 million dollars (about 18.4 billion yen) with several companies related to North Korea under UN sanctions.
Among them were Chinese companies accused by US authorities of being involved in North Korea's nuclear program and helping to escape sanctions. It was revealed by an analysis based on the "Fincen files" of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).
The two banks are JP Morgan Chase and Bank of New York Mellon. Some companies have made public that they are engaged in trade with North Korea, and banks may have continued to trade without customer confirmation.
(Example file out of 2657 total and 2121 suspicouse ones)
It effects a lots of banks and countrys too beside the USA,China and Northkorea. Like Syria, Germany, Deutsche Bank and Comerzbank for exampöes
DATA: icij.org/investigations…
The data in the FinCEN Files transactions map contains information on more than $35 billion in transactions dated from 2000-2017 that were flagged by financial institutions as suspicious to United States authorities.
according to the page there are meanwhile 18,153 transactions extracted from the FinCen files
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