Thread by @Livooo

Bigger than #ElChapo bigger than #PabloEscobar 💉💊☠️💰

Big news then, I guess 👀

#TseChiLop
#SamGorSyndicate

Huge numbers! $400 billion+ pa 🌎🌍🌏
National security type influence.

Social - Political - Economic

Where does all that money go? 🤔🔁💸

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1183892709708357636

When illegal drug operations get this big, they cross borders, networks become huge & they need protection/assistance

According to well documented incidents, intelligence agencies sometimes oversee 👀

Political expedience
#VangPao #Laos #KhunSa #Golden🔺

There are loads of other well-documented episodes

The untraceable huge sums of 💰 from drugs come in very handy for clandestine funding of "off the books" type operations

#PlausibleDeniability

When you're fighting for national interests, can it be justified? #ColdWar

Happens all over the 🌐 & is assisted by the world of secretive #Offshore 💸

#FinCenFiles #panamapapers #Appleby etc

You only have to log into Netflix today to see all the stories #Narcos etc.

So, as well as these stories being about 'Characters/Drug Lords'... there's more 👀

*Better the Devil you know* in some cases.

Examples of Drug Lords / Cartels that have had unofficial relationships with those in legitimate power👀⬇️

All over the world...

Illegal drugs don't get officially taxed, so no gvmt revenue!

#DarkMoney #BlackBudgets
#BBCI etc...💸

#BCCI Obvs! 🤦

Other notables;
- #NuganHand Bank
- #Castle Bank
- #BancoAmbrosiano
- #FranklinNationalBank
- #RepublicBankOfNewYork
- #Menatap
- #ICB
- #DeutscheBank & #HSBC ?!?
On & on...

#Wa region of #Shan state sounds like the Twilight Zone

I think I remember Shan state being mentioned in a report about Casino's & #WiganAthletic 🤯⚽️

Have a read ⬇️
bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…

Podcast by an investigative journalist who went to explore 👀