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While Criminal US Bankers Receive Golden Parachutes, Barbarian Afghanistan Has Just Arrested Executives Of Failed Kabul Bank
Sometimes it is good to put things in perspective when comparing developed democracies like America and barbaric despotic dictatorships like Afghanistan. In one country, radioactively orange criminal heads of imploded mortgage lenders, who are responsible for billions in losses at rescued companies that will soon require more taxpayer bailouts, received multi million dollar golden parachute severance packages and slips on the write from the country's "regulators." In the other, former executives of a major failed bank have been arrested over huge fraud that led to its near collapse, while the head of its central bank flees to the first country on fears of prosecutions. Take a wild guess which country is which...
From the BBC:
Deputy Attorney General Rahmatullah Nazari said the bank's founder and its former chairman Sherkhan Farnood and ex-CEO Khalilullah Ferozi were being held on embezzlement charges.
He told Reuters news agency both men would go on trial within a month.
Revelations of fraud, bad loans and mismanagement prompted a run on the bank last September.
It was bailed out by the central bank as part of efforts to prevent it from collapsing.
In April, it was split into a "good" and "bad" bank, and President Hamid Karzai vowed to take action against those responsible for the crisis.
Mr Farnood and Mr Ferozi, who both owned large stakes in the bank, were placed under house arrest at the time trouble hit, though they were reportedly able to move freely around Kabul nonetheless.
"We had to make arrests because Haji Khalil [Ferozi] and Sherkhan are the kind of people who can easily slip away from the country," Mr Nazari said, Reuters reported.
"Both are responsible for millions of dollars of losses in Kabul Bank and they must appear in court before they go too far from our hands," he said.
Another person who as we reported, and who is implicated in the massive fraud, is none other than the head of the former central bank head: Fitrat.
Earlier this week Afghan authorities issued a warrant for the arrest of the former governor of the Afghan central bank, Abdul Qadeer Fitrat, saying he was being investigated in connection with the fraud at Kabul Bank.
But he had already fled to the US, saying his life was in danger for exposing fraud.
In April, Mr Fitrat himself had accused several key Afghan officials - including President Hamid Karzai's brother Mahmoud Karzai and Vice-President Qasim Fahim - of involvement. Both deny the charges.
Funny: he was being sought in connection with the fraud, while he told all his central banking cohorts that he was in danger due to exposing fraud.
Understandable. Must have been lost in translation.
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OT, but the 40th anniversary of pure fiat is close (15 August 1971). Shouldn't ZH celebrate accordingly? However, when I think about it... 40th birthdays are sad events, you are closer to the grave than ever before... so... getting drunk alone will do.
Come on: convertibility of FRNs to US dollars was never abandoned, it was only suspended until markets calm down, so it's transitory.
"I have instructed Secretary Connelly to suspend temporarily the convertability of the dollar into gold..."
and people wonder why GenX is how we are
+1
Good news: the average age of fiat is 80 years.
Well see, that's the whole point here.
If you don't have a bank failure nobody gets arrested...
JPMorgan didn’t admit or deny allegations in the complaint. It will pay a civil penalty of $133 million, plus $18.6 million repayment of its profits and $2 million in interest.
http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2011/2011-131.htm
Actually I would have no problem giving those criminal US Banksters a Golden shower if it would help. But that's just me.
Anyone else interested in whipping it out and helping a bankster in need?
The following phrase comes to mind:
"I wouldn't piss on your teeth if your gums were on fire."
Yea, sorry. My piss is too valuable for that. I'll be utilizing it in the far more important act of flushing instead.
Yeah sure, here's the gold shower:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VOzFl3kiuU
(when does the season 2 begin?)
I don't need to click the link to know what it is pointing to.
+1
Kewl!
Sometimes you worry me.............
Sometimes I worry me as well. Then I visit ZH and find I'm tame by comparison to many others.
It's always good to find out you are more normal than normal.
Support mental health week or I'll kill you! :>D
Why do they hate America?
Probably for the same reason many posters here do.
Bankers letting other bankers hang? Must mean they are throwing in the towel on Afghanistan. Since bankers run this country, I suppose the troops will be coming home soon now?
Nah, just rotating in a new set of thieves.
With such a young and virgin territory to rape the line of serial rapists is long and impatient. And it's becoming rather difficult for those in line to hide their anticipatory boners much longer.
Perfect.
boots on the ground are so passe'.
Droid planes flown at video display terminals that is what will replace the soldiers coming home.
colateral damage will be up but the military will accept that.
bankster shenanigans is the new trend world wide. Fiat money being toxic like white powder and just as hallucinogenic, we can expect a rash of central bankers on the run with their suitcases full of green backs, lost in translation in Baghdad for 6 billion, re-found in smaller denomination in Kabul and elsewhere. You never lose a true green back anywhere in the world. Make haste while that trend is still "gaga-cool" and in the air.
Is that what justice looks like? It's been so long I forgot about the concept entirely.
Doubtful. More like gangs fighting over turf. In this case, one of the gangs has the facade of legitimacy called 'government' and they are trying their best to keep the ruse alive.
Sounds to me like the bankers were not sharing the wealth with the right people.
Afghanistan is a 'young' democracy (Banana Republic) and America is a mature democracy (Banana Republic) ...give it a decade or two and these Afghan bankers will get away with financial murder as they pass ever more regulations, appoint more regulators and thicken the layers of the financial protection racket
Someone please remind what happened with Jullian Assange?
Who wants to place bets if Abdul Qadeer Fitrat gets arrested.
Julian Assange lives in the UK and watches wimbledon like the rest of us. The slightest wrong move and the surrogate Swedish justice will put its hooks on him for "rape" without rubber... a new concept.
http://vimeo.com/25412550
So, only the Fitrats manage to make it to the US for protection. Fitting
What's worse than a banana republic? One without any bananas. Yes, we have no bananas!
And we are officially a bigger banana republic than Afghanistan.... where camels are taxis, growing opium is revered, and bankers are still held to account for corruption.
+1 for the laugh.
Damn barbaric Afghani tribesmen don't know how to treat respectable bankers. Bankers do God's work.
Everything.wrong.with.theworld.stems.from.corruption.
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And it begins with mental corruption, taught onwards from the moment you are born. Though, one in a million for unknown reasons resists against all odds.
radioactively orange criminal = lulz
China executes crook banksters, Afghanistan arrests crooked banksters, USA gives crooked banksters as many billions as they want.
They should stick US bankers and politicians in an Afghanistan jail that houses donkeys and goats and make them mate, then we would get half breeds that look like half of Nancy Pelosi and Bwarney Fwank!
Why that FitRat is one Fat Cat....
with 9 lives.
But this is just one crook 1 arresting crook 2, so the money spigot stays open.
Geitner just announced he wants to leave after the debt ceiling has passed...wierd timing.....but maybe he is going to hang out with the Afgan bankers...
Goldman Sachs Board Member Spared any investigation by the SEC... Surprise! Surprise!! Surprise!!!
http://www.finalternatives.com/node/17248
“Gupta SEC Case Postponed Indefinitely” Notice that Goldman Sachs is NOT! in the Head Line?? And is not mentioned until the end of the article..“Gupta was not called as a witness at Rajaratnam's trial, which ended in his conviction on all counts last month. But his voice was heard in several taped phone calls between the men; prosecutors say that, in one case, Gupta called Rajaratnam only seconds after leaving a Goldman board conference call to tell him that bank had received a big investment from Berkshire Hathaway.”
hang the pikers!
Squirls in the Server! Double!!
Rattus Afganicus
Squirls in the server.. triple!
Forget the SEC, take matters into your own hand...
http://dmaf2010.aminus3.com/image/2010-09-01.html
BFB - Bullets For BAnkerS
breeders probably think the Earth rests on the back of a turtle... gunna breed asia muslim as i see it
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real dangerous stuff when some fools label israel a supernational zionist militaristic regional agressor... probably even question the UN oil wars, barbarians
Geithner is leaving? Does the US have an extradition treaty with Afghanistan, or wherever he's headed for?
Isn't fiat Italian?
"...barbaric despotic dictatorships like Afghanistan."
A lot of Afghans risked life and limb to vote in "democratic style" elections. Throw them a bone will ya?
They risked their lives to vote for "representative democracy"? I'm not sure if i should pity them, consider them incredibly stupid, or just desperate....... probably the third, making them blind towards the second.
Run of the mill representative democracy, is nothing more than dictatorship + illusion.
A country of US$18 billion GDP is stuffed with US$120 billion a year. What else do you expect.
Fitrat. Turbo Timmy is jealous of that name.