Global banks defy U.S. crackdowns by serving oligarchs, criminals and terrorists
Secret U.S. government documents reveal that #JPMorgan #Chase, #HSBC and other big banks have defied money laundering crackdowns by moving staggering sums of illicit cash for shadowy characters and criminal networks that have spread chaos and undermined democracy around the world.
The records show that five global banks — #JPMorgan, #HSBC, #StandardCharteredBank, #Deutsche Bank and #BankOfNewYorkMellon — kept profiting from powerful and dangerous players even after U.S. authorities fined these financial institutions for earlier failures to stem flows of dirty money....
#jpmorgan #chase #hsbc #StandardCharteredBank #deutsche #BankOfNewYorkMellon #FinCEN #FincenFiles #icij