“Lawless” HSBC Got Away With Money Laundering in 2012
The Clinton foundation received US$81m in funds from clients of the HSBC bank in 2015. Whether or not this was another attempt to launder money through the bank’s accounts, is anybody’s guess at this time. It needs no explanation the financial ecosystem as we know it is being attacked from all angles. That is only made possible because they have been doing some dirty things behind the scenes. Albeit the HSBC bank should have been prosecuted back in 2012 for money laundering, the DOJ decided not to. After all, it would cause “global financial disaster”. So are banks absolved from any....
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