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How the Danske Bank money-laundering scheme involving $230 billion unraveled

It could be the biggest money-laundering scheme in history, with suspicious money flowing from Russia and former Soviet republics

Money laundering is the way clever crooks hide and eventually spend all of the money they have stolen. And this is a tale about what's believed to be the biggest money-laundering scheme in history.

It involves nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars of very suspicious money from Russia and the former Soviet Union that was funneled into the western banking system right under the noses of major banks and regulators in the United States and Europe, who either facilitated it or turned a blind eye. At the heart of it is a whistleblower, who found one loose thread and decided to pull on it.

Howard Wilkinson is an Oxford man: cautious, prudent and a bit of a stickler. After his cover was blown last fall in a newspaper article as the person who uncovered the scandal, he has spent much of his time wandering the British countryside trying not to be found.

Howard Wilkinson: Being named as a whistleblower** in a case involving dirty Russian money. It's not a good place to be. -snip



**Should be noted that "whistleblower" is tantamount with "traitor" in some circles now

Originally posted by Robtard
It's all over the news, so pick your flavour :




I choose....

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDbJ5tcUMAE_f89.jpg

A textbook example of why regulation is a broken system.


The people in this bank were supposed to be regulating the flow of money. Evidentially, they were either lax, bribed, or in on the operation. It took an insider whistleblower to put his life on the line, for this to come to light.


Add in a layer of government oversight, and it will be full of people who may be lax, bribed, or partnered in the very corruption they're meant to fight against.

Agreed. This never would have happened if it weren't for the existence of laws criminalizing it. Regulation is the problem- unlimited corporate power is the solution.

Originally posted by Robtard
It's all over the news, so pick your flavour:

How the Danske Bank money-laundering scheme involving $230 billion unraveled

It could be the biggest money-laundering scheme in history, with suspicious money flowing from Russia and former Soviet republics

Money laundering is the way clever crooks hide and eventually spend all of the money they have stolen. And this is a tale about what's believed to be the biggest money-laundering scheme in history.

It involves nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars of very suspicious money from Russia and the former Soviet Union that was funneled into the western banking system right under the noses of major banks and regulators in the United States and Europe, who either facilitated it or turned a blind eye. At the heart of it is a whistleblower, who found one loose thread and decided to pull on it.

Howard Wilkinson is an Oxford man: cautious, prudent and a bit of a stickler. After his cover was blown last fall in a newspaper article as the person who uncovered the scandal, he has spent much of his time wandering the British countryside trying not to be found.

Howard Wilkinson: Being named as a whistleblower** in a case involving dirty Russian money. It's not a good place to be. -snip



**Should be noted that "whistleblower" is tantamount with "traitor" in some circles now

Awful.