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Don't have time for a real thread on this, but there has been a lot happening on the global money laundering network cases! I just have to share it! We are seeing historic transparency into the corruption of banking, politics & enabling of crimes! #ButNothingsHappening
@OCCRP & @ICIJ & other groups are breaking stories on the Troika Laundromat, another gigantic scheme to launder money from Russia into supposedly reputable banks in West who chose to not ask questions! #TroikaLaundromat
@OCCRP @ICIJ Previous #laundromat cases include Azerbaijan, where Trump & his FBI informant friends worked a deal with the son of a corrupt minister that exposed this network of Russian & Iranian money laundering.
@OCCRP @ICIJ Of course that case was proceeded by the exposure of the #RussianLaundromat in 2014 that lead to significant investigations. But also lead to some sweetheart deals by DOJ & other law enforcement groups that didn't get to the roots of the problem...
@OCCRP @ICIJ Now if you think it is just exposure of the networks #ButNothingsHappening there are huge things happening in investigations & prosecutions! Lithuania’s Ukio Bankas was laundering money, including a case uncovered by Sergei Magnitsky.
@OCCRP @ICIJ There is a reason why the Swamp establishment did not want @realDonaldTrump elected. He had spent decades helping the FBI investigate corruption & global money laundering operation. He knew how to disassemble the protective networks put in place.
@OCCRP @ICIJ @realDonaldTrump Bank stocks are tumbling for a reason. The efforts of Attorney General Barr to prosecute the networks behind BCCI in the early 90s were blocked by many bad actors. The effort to revive the case with Enron, then HSBC, were also fought tooth & nail.
@OCCRP @ICIJ @realDonaldTrump Until someone figured out that the best way to expose the corruption was to weaponize HSBC's internal investigations department against the Swamp. Combined with the 'leaks' from #PanamaPapers #ParadisePapers & several more, a critical mass was reached.
@OCCRP @ICIJ @realDonaldTrump That critical point occurred just as the US DOJ & FBI were purged of corrupt actors who had helped block corruption cases in the past. Just as the employees at US Treasury FINCEN which gathered intelligence on suspicious money deals came under investigation...
@OCCRP @ICIJ @realDonaldTrump #ButNothingsHappening @threadreaderapp Unroll please!
