Money stolen from the Iraqi people in secret Swiss bank accounts

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25 Feb 2015 In IRAQ, Banking Comments Off on Money stolen from the Iraqi people in secret Swiss bank accounts
02/25/2015

I saw on the evening of Sunday, February 8, 2015 the American television program “60 Minutes” from “CBS ‘station. The program was one of the themes for leaking dangerous information from the second-largest Swiss commercial bank in the world, “HSBC age” (HSBC), Geneva branch in Switzerland. It was the biggest leak in the history of Swiss banks at all. Got the official responsible for banking IT security, Hervé Valgianni (Hervé Falciani), 37-year-old, sensitive information for more than a hundred thousand a bank account for people from different countries of the world. 

The record of eight encrypted disks of type “DVD” (DVD), and so in 2007, and fled to France, where he handed over to French authorities. The work of the employee with the competent French authorities over the whole year decoding and analyzing the information accurately. Once the TV program finishes curiosity prompted me to Othry on the subject in depth at the official site for the program. Here are found the exciting details not mentioned in the TV. And evacuated twice on who contacted her hand information, Rajya them to provide me with the names and addresses of the Iraqi people, companies, and the amounts and the date of filing, and a statement as to whether the funds are legitimate or suspicious. I am still waiting for the answer.

Investigation conducted by the American journalist, but Whitaker (Bill Whitaker) of the program in collaboration with the World Federation of Journalists investigators, the body which owns the information now. The investigation, which will be called (infusion Swiss The Swiss Leaks), that the bank was well aware that he is trading money illegally to people outlaws like muggers (tax evaders), drug smugglers and arms dealers and Bribe Payers, and follows a crooked methods seem legitimate outwardly, and gloss the customers crimes under the pretext of privacy and confidentiality. Thanks to the cooperation of France managed to many countries recover billions of contraband dollars and prosecute the criminals to be brought to justice.

Take a simple example of this, was convicted British citizen “Emmanuel Chalwb” (Emmanuel Shallop) due to the sale of so-called “blood diamonds” (Blood Diamonds) from the civil war zones in West Africa. The bank was aware in 2005 that the accused “Chalwb” under investigation, however, helped him to hide his money. In one of the notes by a bank employee came reads: “We opened his account in Dubai. Customer warned currently too because it is under pressure from the Belgian tax authorities investigating the activities related to circumvent the diamond taxes.” 

Sum of the amounts under investigation more than US $ 100 billion return 106,000 people from 203 countries for. And extends information on persons and accounts from 1988 until 2007, but the amounts are for the years 2006 and 2007. 

Was a French journalist, “Serge Michel” (Serge Michel), the newspaper “Le Monde” (Le Monde widespread), the first witness of secret documents from Bank “age as ABC,” Given the magnitude of information the newspaper has used the Global Union investigators told reporters that in turn assigned to more than 140 journalists from 45 countries, and spent more than seven months to study the information. The “60 Minutes” program is the only US media outlet that allowed her to participate process.

The bank “age HSBC” Management has responded in a letter to the program that has been exploiting the bank in the past for tax evasion, and that there have been many changes in management since 2008, and that it will not deal with suspicious people. But the US government has condemned the bank in 2012 for his involvement in the transfer of contraband funds to the American drug gangs, and imposed on the bank’s financial settlement by US $ 1.9 billion. However, this fine is a mere trifle for the bank giant.

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