"In September 2020, FinCEN Files disclosed that ING bank in Poland helped its Russian and Ukrainian tycoons to launder huge amounts of money out of Russia."
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Of course, Deutsche Welle left Ukraine out of its article title:
"Russian money laundering comes to Poland"
dw.com
"Russian money laundering comes to Poland"
dw.com
"Russian [AND UKRAINIAN] money has since the break up of the Soviet Union in 1991 sought safe investment havens in the West such as in Swiss banks, London properties, and French yachts."..
"Bill Browder, CEO of Hermitage Capital and a former client of the deceased Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, claimed that Danske was involved in a giant scam uncovered by Magnitsky. There would be more revelations to come, he said back in 2018 .."
"But at the time, in 2018, the role of banks in Poland was not on the radar.
"It is unlikely that criminals operate on a large scale only in the Baltic States, but not in Poland for some reason,"Â Louise Shelley from George Mason University"..
"It is unlikely that criminals operate on a large scale only in the Baltic States, but not in Poland for some reason,"Â Louise Shelley from George Mason University"..
"Among the criminal organizations laundering the ING money was Altaf Khanani's network, who worked for the Colombian and Mexican cartels as well as for Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah."..
"..According to reports from FinCen, a UK-registered firm, Ergoinvest, played a key role, in 2014 seeing $307 million transferred into its account from Schildershoven's account at ING Bank Slaski. Ergoinvest was a shell company registered in Potters Bar in the UK.".. 🤔
"..Ukraine's missing billions
Between 2014 and 2016, after the invasion of the Crimea and the outbreak of conflict in the east of Ukraine, the country faced the largest banking crisis in its history. Almost half of its banks went bankrupt..
Between 2014 and 2016, after the invasion of the Crimea and the outbreak of conflict in the east of Ukraine, the country faced the largest banking crisis in its history. Almost half of its banks went bankrupt..
"Kyiv turned to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for help. Under strict conditions, the IMF agreed to allocate $17.5 billion to help over four years. It suspended the aid in 2017 after disbursing only half over worries about corruption...
But by then at least $1.8 billion of this had been deposited with PrivatBank, one of Ukraine's largest banks, owned at the time by oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, who backs the current president Volodymyr Zelenski. The money then disappeared...
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