"South Dakota’s unusual stature as a leader nationwide in chartering trust companies has been in the national headlines in recent weeks because of a...Texas billionaire’s messy divorce."
"In the past decade, hundreds of billions of dollars have poured out of traditional offshore jurisdictions and into...Delaware, Nevada, Wyoming – and, above all, South Dakota."
I wonder if they might've had any interest in South Dakota's money laundering and tax haven potential?🤔
July 23, 2018
Maria Got a Gun: How Russia's *deputy central banker* infiltrated his assistant into GOP and what he did in the Taganskaya gang theins.ru/en/uncategoriz…
Today's news about South Dakota is not exactly breaking news.
April 10, 2016
"Forget Switzerland; South Dakota is actually one of the best places in the world for the wealthy to stash their cash in secret."
"Petrescu, 68, was one of Romania's richest men. He headed a major construction firm and owned a string of hypermarkets and malls. He also held Germany nationality,.."
"Moreover, he and Ion Tiriac did business together, after his return from Germany, after the Revolution."
[Who was the millionaire Dan Petrescu, Ion Țiriac's business partner. 'The richest Romanian' died in a plane crash in Milan] fanatik.ro/cine-era-milio…
"Through clever licensing, founding the first private bank of Romania to setting up retail, insurance, auto leasing, and airlines firms, the money began to roll in."
Meet tennis legend Ion Tiriac who's £1.2bn fortune makes him richer than Federer the-sun.com/sport/3658548/…
"Now former H. Brooks employees say their employer stole money from them, including wages, health care premiums & contributions to retirement accounts."
Employees, former owners left in lurch after major Twin Cities produce company folds under new owner strib.mn/3z814q2
May 7, 2021
"Two years after a private equity firm acquired 2 iconic Twin Cities’ fresh produce operations, bankruptcy appears imminent as bills go unpaid & lawsuits accumulate."
"Gretchen Peters, who runs the Center on Illicit Networks & Transnational Organized Crime, was part of a 2012 US delegation to London to 'beg' [them] to take [it] seriously."
"This report confirms Britain’s ongoing role as a ‘laundromat’ for dirty money & reputations and has major national security implications. Action needs to be taken urgently to root out illicit wealth & nefarious influence."
"For example, Hambali and his subordinates met with at least two of the Sept. 11 suicide hijackers in Malaysia as far back as January 2000, officials here say."
"Another investigation was conducted by Aleksandr Litvinenko...who worked with historian Yury Felshtinsky & published their conclusions in 2001, in Novaya Gazeta."
2 Decades On, Smoldering Questions About The Russian President's Vault To Power rferl.org/a/putin-russia…