Swiss prosecutors charge 4 Russian bankers with laundering millions in assets belonging to Vladimir Putin.
The Swiss branch of Russia's Gazprombank has been winding up operations due to sanctions.
Bank officials classified Putin pal & his daughter's Godfather as a non politically connected customer to avoid due diligence like asking where the money was coming from.
The banks knew who he was but pretended he was just a conductor at a theater.
Who needed to move more than $10M per year through Swiss banks.
Not suspicious at all...
The politically connected Russian bank sending the money to Switzerland tried to hide it's involvement by using anonymous email addresses.
But the #PanamaPapers leaks exposed the shell companies & allowed investigations of global money laundering schemes.
This investigation started in 2016 following the leaks.
By 2018, Swiss regulators had concluded the bank violated the laws. But some Swamp draining was required at the Swiss AG's office before these criminal charges were filed.
So criminal charges for Russian bankers, running a Swiss bank for Gazprom, for laundering tens of milliosn of dollars that actually belonged to Vladimir Putin but was hidden in the name of his daughter's godfather.
Last year, the US sanctioned "Putin's cellist" Sergei Roldugin for laundering Putin's money or him.
The Panama Papers revealed that he had over $2B in shell companies, but that figure is likely low as it only included 1 shell company agency from Panama. news.yahoo.com/u-issues-fresh…
Roldugin has been Putin's best friend since the 1970s.
In 2016, Putin tried to claim Roldugin's income came from owning stock in a Russian bank. The same Russian bank that used anonymous emails to send the cash to Switzerland... web.archive.org/web/2017122607…
Of course people who follow me won't be surprised that much of this wealth came from insider trading on stock in Rosneft & Gazprom.
Like those collusion deals that someone tried to say were involving @realDonaldTrump & @carterwpage but actually involved a lot of Swamp creatures.
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Gone are the days of German leaders from East Germany, weakening NATO by not spending their agreed upon defense budget.
Gone are the days fo German politicians buying energy from Russia & taking Swampy deals & well paid seats on Russian company boards.
Credit Suisse pleads guilty & flips for helping 475 US account holders hide billions from the IRS in off-shore accounts.
They have also signed a deferred prosecution agreement for other crimes & agreed to cooperate!
Crimes from 2010-2021!
#ButNothingsHappening
Credit Suisse will pay $510M in fines & penalties in addition to the guilty plea.
After corrupt bankers collapsed Credit Suisse, UBS bought them & are now also forced to comply with the cooperation agreement!
It's a 2 for 1 special!
The reason for the requirement to plead guilty is likely because when they committed these crimes, they were under a Deferred Prosecution Agreement signed in 2014 that required their cooperation.
They didn't think DOJ would hold them to it!
How long before people realize that Trump sets up cases to get precedents set in court?
Once the exact parameters & processes for using the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 are confirmed deporting Tren de Aragua, how long does Trump wait to use it on China's 1000 Talents spy program?
It would be very easy to prove in court by the precedents set at this time that the 1000 Talents program is a predatory incursion against the United States by the Chinese government.