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Presenting The #1 Financial Haven For Dictators & Criminals
Submitted by Simon Black of Sovereign Man blog,
Pop quiz: When really nasty criminals and dictators want to hide their illicit gains, which country do they go to?
I’ll make this easy for you - multiple choice:
a) Switzerland
b) British Virgin Islands
c) Hong Kong
With all the drama, history, and stigma surrounding Switzerland, most people would choose (A).
Yet over the last few years, Switzerland has worked hard to shed this reputation, even going so far as to propose laws making it easier for them to freeze dictators’ funds.
But in reality, the correct answer to the question is (D), none of the above. It’s the United States of America.
Despite being at the forefront for every other country in the world to eradicate banking privacy, the US government has hardly done a thing about the huge cracks in its own banking system… at least when it comes to foreigners.
Many states ranging from Delaware to New Mexico boast corporate entities that can be completely private, especially for foreign shareholders.
Not to mention, attorney-client privilege laws in the US mean that a lawyer can be inserted between a foreigner and their Delaware bank account, making the funds virtually untraceable back to the original shareholder overseas.
Last– the US banking system is so large with hundreds of billions of dollars of inflows and outflows, it’s quite easy for several hundred million to slip right past the radar.
So if you’re a villainous dictator who has plundered your citizens’ wealth, you’d be a fool to stash that cash away in Switzerland. Wall Street banks are waiting with open arms, and Saul Goodman is just a phone call away.
None of this, by the way, is any wild conspiracy theory. It’s all fact… validated by the US government itself.
You see, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), an agency of the US Treasury Department, sent out a rather frantic email blast to banks across the United States yesterday about former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
Mr. Yanukovych recently fled his home country and is on the run from mass murder charges. And as you can imagine, he has spent years plundering the wealth of Ukraine.
FinCEN recognizes that Yanukovych has substantial assets stashed away in the Land of the Free… and they’re keen to avoid yet another embarrasing public scandal in which the US banking system is caught financing a fugitive dictator.
So their email yesterday was a not-so-subtle suggestion to banks across the country that they should sound the alarm bells with respect to “suspicious movements of assets related to Viktor Yanukovych. . . and other senior officials resigning from their positions or departing Kyiv.”
It certainly begs the question– why would FinCEN send out such an admonishment to US banks?
Simple. Because while ordinary citizens are treated like dairy cows and medieval serfs, FinCEN knows that the United States is the #1 financial safe haven in the world for foreign criminals and dictators.
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Whole bunch of small hedge funds based in Miami would not mind either.
Seem to be buying lots of property without even doing title searches.
What could not go wrong ?
LOL! Reminds me of the scene when the WASP banker is at Tony Montana's manison in Miami Beach (actually a back lot in LA cause the Cubans chased the movie out of Miami). The banker is going to charge Tony a few more points to launder his money.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/an-X8rvtbu7mhbJmm/scarface_1980_bank_meeting/
MetaCafe screws it up and the video shows after the banker leaves. The text is below. Tony (Al Pacino) bitching about banksters in the movie sounds like he would fit in on ZH. LOL!
The movie had scenes with the vans pulling up to the bank with duffel bags of cash. It was supposed to be on Brickell Ave in Miami in the foreign banking money laundering area just south of downtown Miami near Coconut Grove. The bank in the movie was in Encino.
http://www.filminglocationsdetectives.com/films/scarface_page4.htm
My wife immediatley nailed it (without peaking) and said drug money in Miami.
Few would willingly accept how much "green energy" and "environmental" scams are being run right now, off the back of the U.S. taxpayer. It's very widespread and rarely reported on in the press.
The other large pot of fiat fraud is Medicaid, Medicare and other governmental health care programs. There are millions of H1B "nurses" from the Phillipines in Miami who are glorified prostitutes because the government pays for in home medical care for probably 80% of the seniors in Florida. The people running these operations are fly-by-night, yet appear to make a TON of cash before they move on, reincorporate, change all ID information, and start the mill over again.
You should nail your wife while she's "peaking", make a video, share here, we'll take a "peek" ;)
FREEDOM!!!
It's the Criminal UNITED STATES, COPR. INC & affiliates.
The Criminal
CORP STATE DEPT.
NSA
CIA
MIC
DOD
DHS
FBI
DEPT OF ENERGY
FDA
DEPT OF EDUCATION
DEPT OF COMMERENCE
DOJ
FOREIGN AGENTS known as CONgress
CEO know as the President
FEDERAL RESERVE
All Corporations. All Criminal. Get it now?
You are now officially F'd, expect 3 letter visits starting with the one you missed.
Oh come on the suspense is killing me....... which one did he miss?
DIA
NRO
SOF
NWO
JPM
GS (okay not really 3 but don't want them to feel left out)
MIA
For the love of god, please share your infinite wisdom..............
please share...
My money would be on the IRS.
To be quite frank, I cannot wait. Only an idiot would answer any questions from a Fraudulent Entity.
Hey 322, who's the Fraudulent Entity?
The kettle is black, no?
Free Corzine
His name was Jon Corzine.
The "Honorable Jon Corzine," to you.
Free the Indianapolis 500!
So all the rhetoric we hear lately about evil Swiss banks, helping US citisens "evade" takses, are basicly an PR drive for US banks?
specifically Washington D.C.
Hay Yanukovich, better call Saul!
I don't believe it for a minute. Why our leaders have shown us that they are honorable and virtuous. How can Simon suggest such a thing when we have people like Lloyd Blankfein doing God's work, or Jon Corzine who worked so hard to get President Obama elected so he can lift up the poor and redistribute the wealth of the nation? Simon you should be ashamed for talking that way about the shining city on the hill.
Unthinkable I tell you, simply unthinkable.
Unless you don't like banks and are buying high-end prostitutes. Then watch your $5k transactions.
Do u think they think we're hypocrites?
Only caused UK to double down and dig their cesspools deeper
i would have guessed britain ...
ICE's EB-5 visa program encourages foreign criminals to migrate to the USA with their ill-gotten gains. The Barclay Center in Broklyn was built with the $250 million in EB-5 money, with everyone from Mayor Bloomberg down ignoring the requirement that each $500,000 investment was supposed to generate 10 jobs. The Barclay Center/Atlantic Yards generated 400 construction jobs at its peak, not 5,000 jobs.
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Under the EB-5 Visa Program, a $500,000 investment in a "Regional Center" enables foreign investors to qualify for the Green Card without the constraints of having to set-up and manage a U.S. business. This immigration option allows investors to live in any U.S. state and engage in a business, employment, or any activity of the invstor's choice, or just retire.
Illuminating. Thanks for the insight.
Mikhail Gorbechev got off scott free. He's around here somewhere...
"United States is the #1 financial safe haven in the world for foreign criminals and dictators."
That statement would probably just as true without the words foreign and dictators.
I think the US needs all that money to prop up the banks and financial system.
Interesting thought experiment that imposing laws on crime and drug money weakens your opponents and strengthens you. For all the rhetoric on this site I think the US has this in the bag. By "this" I mean the on going financial crisis.
Oligarchs all the way (pause) BITCHEZ
'Merica!
What's #2?
The same place those slimy Saudis hide in - London.
London, Zurich, Dubai, New York, Geneva, Paris, etc...all massive real estate havens for Kingpins and Kings.
Put your money in the USA and hide yourself in Israel like Simyon Mogilevich or Evsei Agron
With overpriced condo at #1 Rothschild Plaza, Tel Aviv.
This article is really not at all hard to believe. After all, the U.S.A. is the land of the rich, for the rich and by the rich....everyone else, ESPECIALLY the indigenous population of middle class Americans are merely serfs and cogs that keep the system running.
+42. Ding, ding, ding, ding.
"...and they’re keen to avoid yet another embarrasing public scandal in which the US banking system is caught..."
HSBC. How quickly we forget.
"The United States is the #1 financial safe haven in the world for foreign criminals" BECAUSE more than a Century ago the international bankers were able to take control of the government of the USA. The biggest gangsters are the banksters, and everything else follows from that pattern that bullies rule the world through bullshit. "Ordinary citizens are treated like dairy cows and medieval serfs" BECAUSE they have been brainwashed to believe in the biggest bullies' bullshit social stories.
The government is the biggest form of organized crime, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals, who have deliberately driven more and more wars based on deceits, in order to advance the basic debt slavery, social pyramid systems. For example, both in domestic affairs, as well as in foreign affairs, the government itself primarily promoted the creation of the "war on drugs" and the "war on terror" in order to justify the development of more government, in ways which would make those who actually controlled that government more wealthy and powerful.
The false fundamental dichotomy between government versus organized crime is one of the biggest obstacles to understanding politics enough to transform it sufficiently to PERHAPS survive the growing contradictions between progress in science and technology primarily being employed to become better at being dishonest and backing that up with violence. We are stuck in a vicious spiral driven by the biggest bullies being able to get away with their bullshit. That has been too successful in making most people think about these problems backwards, in the ways that the bullies want them to continue thinking. The financial system was built by international banksters, as the biggest bullies promoting their bullshit. Therefore, OF COURSE, it is at the heart of that system that the "really nasty criminals and dictators" operate. All of the different organized crime gangs and dictators operate within the globalized systems of the biggest and best organized crime gangs and governments.
The degree to which the language of false fundamental dichotomies, and their related impossible ideals, has become socially dominant makes better resolutions of chronic political problems practically impossible. The really existing, and necessarily existing, chronic political problems are obliquely resolved through the means of fighting fake wars, which were mainly started by "false flags," whose real effects became the self-fulfilling prophesies that they were designed to actually become. Meanwhile, the degree of dominance of the biggest bullies' bullshit regarding false fundamental dichotomies between organized crime versus government, or terrorists versus government, makes it practically impossible to deal with real social facts in any more scientific ways, so that we could thereby actually resolve the chronic political problems more forthrightly.
+1
The people pay the price always with their souls and money.
Well I have to state the OBVIOUS RM, because you skip the history.
But Rockefeller from club 'anglo saxon' ( read carrol quigley, cia historian ), Rockefeller paid for all of the United Nations and paid for its HQ in NYC.
Ford Foundation pretty much pay's for most of the other NWO order shit, ... all 100% NAZI the same people who brought HITLER to power.
So to answer your question when the NWO rob's the fucking WORLD, and all the money is looted and stored in the USA.
All I can tell you, is this is how it was designed.
Good to see you around RM, always enjoy your posts. +1
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D for Delaware !
Land of Pocahontas!
Oups...sorry, land of Pocahontas's quaker son !
When you leave the City on the Mayflower its 'cos you ain't Oxbridge, but...you can be Ivy League in Pocahontas land!
Youpeee!
did you know that if you Drive Fast enough in Delaware, you can be entering and leaving the State, on the Same 4 tires.
and if the window is down and you can't stand the Smell your in the center....
Not a surprise: A criminal enterprise backstopped by a criminal syndicate needs the loot from protected outfits to keep things propped up a little longer.
"It's all hightimes and big houses until someone gets guillotined."
So much about criminals....what did the market do today?
Whenever Foneystone star starts a flaming war, ask yourself what was the Thread that he wanted to disrupt.. and Yeah stay on topic and Don't feed the Trolls
I have a window sticker of Fonestar pissing on an ounce of gold. People point and put one hand over their ouths as they drive past.
Just open a casino to launder your money.....that works
Indeed. And there's also betting shops, a popular money laundering vehicle in the UK.
Or your own American bank, for a mere $20 M.
Churches work too, which is why there are so dann many of them. Oops, now I've pissed of the evangelizing clergy for outing them.
The City of London is the real epicenter of fraud.
US gets an honorable mention though.
The City of London may be the epicenter of fraud, but Tel Aviv is the epicenter of Satanic evil!
Gee-I thought that was LA. Maybe you oughta check your map. Your compass is pointing due racist.
a) London
b) Cayman Islands (=U.S.)
"8,282 of 9,800 hedge funds operate from the Cayman Islands" http://tinyurl.com/d27tlu
OECD Puts CAYMAN ISLANDS On Tax ‘White List’ http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=126377.0
This is quite interesting!!!!!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2568194/Missing-Ukrainian-presid...
London and New York, perfect together.
American criminals are underrated...
You might say criminally underrated.
Why Isn't Jamaica on this list. This article could have gone so much farther.
I thought Jersey, the pedophile island, was the biggest criminal tax evasion shelter.
will one of those thousands of content suppliers referenced in that Onion article please create a Fonestar Filter and hack it into ZH....
Fonestar, can you describe to me the difference between currency and money??? If you can then I'ld be willing to put you up in my basement. I will give a little hint. Ask yourself what is bitcoin backed with and what can you convert it into??
fonestar already did. The first time you asked.
I am up voting all of your posts now. I just love being wrong.
President Viktor Yanukovych was buried at sea with full military honours ,his millions were tossed into the CFIA coffers
It would be hypcritical to support dictators when they're in power and doing the bidding of the US and then turn our backs on them when they're ousted (well.... unless the US does the ousting....)
They come to the US and buy Real Estate. Best place in the world to launder illicit money. Just ask the Chinese.
(D) Israel
The USA is a failed prison colony. Easy for ISRAEL to co-opt.
Today USA is mercenary army a dog on a leash for AIPAC.
AIPAC rob's the world, and keeps the worlds loot safely in the USA.
Paper loot of course, AIPAC is smat enough to keep Physical gold in Tel-Aviv.
(D) USA is answer, but a better question might be who control's 'D', who runs the financial centers in 'D', who controls the GUBMINT in 'D'.
Fuck you satoshit. If everything you think you know was even mildly correct, Jamie would be in jail. Goyim muthafukkas are the reason he still trades dick with whatizface over at the squid. People like you just make the pool muddier and harder to clean. Do the world a favor - go practice genocide on yourself and anyone sharing your dna.
Jamie would be in jail. Goyim muthafukkas are the reason he still trades dick with whatizface over at the squid.
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Care to state in plain pigeon ghetto English so all the ZH nigga's can understand what you just said?
1.) Jamie would be in Jail for what?
2.) Goyim are the reason who sucks dick with who where.
You ZH men without balls who talk in CODE are why this can and never will be fight-club, but will always be man-twat club.
I personally know (or used to know) of Israelis who live there, keep their some of their paper and gold assets there, and the rest in NY and Singapore.
They understand history, human nature and risk management better than most/anybody.
It's a greenlight to banksters to freeze his assets and then endlessly rehypothicate them.
fonestar, just like the guy above you wittingly pointed out if my exhange rate is 1 brain of shit = 1 bitcoin or 1 USD or w/e then how different is this from Mt.Gox or ANY other exhange ALL quoting THEIR OWN given price.
The price after all is dictated by the exchange and not the "market" otherwise many others including myself would arb the shit out of it till it was.
Do I expect an intelligent answer.. no.
I see fonestar becoming more and more desperate day after day. The game is unwinding, only the fools buy here...
I think you might also like TSLA stock.
This is why the WINKELVOSS LIKUD boyz created their own BITCOIN price, they saw that most BTC pricing is based on MT-GOX and every insider in wunderkid team-aipac BTC knew that MT-GOX was going down.
WINKEL-FUCKS have millions of their FACEBOOK FIAT in BTC, so they will PUMP the price, to liquidate their holdings of BTC, ... how long? Probably in 3-6 months teh Winkelfucks will be out of BTC.
Fonestar is TYLER, ... never forget that ZH is about PUMPING&DUMPING BITCOIN, or any paper that LIKUD wants pumped and dumped.
That is some excellent insight... there are very few multi-millionares out there that have made their money by being consistently foolish, the winklefucks are defineately an exception - luck helps, though lawyers are better. Few have actually dumped such enourmous amounts of capital into BTC that need to close positions.
The majority of the cash is GONE. The miners that orginally created the coins cashed out as the price went up. The exchanges cashed out as the price went up.
All that is left is bits 'worth' hundreds of millions USD, but in actuallity has not even 1% behind it.
Only a greater fool gives these clowns their hard earned fiat.
The 1/2 life of anybody who tells the TRUTH on ZH is 1-3 weeks, yet fonestar has been on ZH for 2+ years talking shit and breaking every virtual 'selective' rule known to the ZH 'law'.
Yet fonestar remainds, ... ergo fonestar is a TYLER.
Enough said.
I loved my TSLA stock - then it caught fire. Didn't even have time to put it on the baot.
ahh now we see exactly what fonestar is about and the motive for his trolling.
" If someone does not accept Bitcoin you can explain to them why they should. If that doesn't work you use force or intimidation until they do volunteer." -fonestar
Sounds like somebody has been reading Jesse's work. All the brainpower here at ZH, and y'all didn't know about flaming until now? How do you think the government knows why its population is so dangerous? Where else can you get a shave, a haircut, two bits AND a load of anti-semitic bullshit all in one web page? Only here in the ZH commentary.
Just remember - the opportunity to kill all the Jews has passed. Everybody has tried it, and it just doesn't work. They pretty much all shoot back now, and they have more practice on the range than any of y'all. SO better keep that Joobaiting retardiness in the ethersphere where nobody knows your name. Otherwise you might find yourself under a hooded sight with a red dot on your peckerhead.
edit - the last statement is for those of you who know who you are.
www.ethanmichaly.com
Now it's easy to bury gold with gps reading and anti-radar shield.
Ukraine's protest leaders named a millionaire former banker to head a new government
Wonder how long he get training on how to use a Nail Gun? F-in Unbelieveable.
The real paradise for big-time cons is Israel.
Totally unique country, which has is deep contempt all international agreements.
Things are different than before. Now when I see a photo of Obama I see a representative of a regime that has taken over the United States of America no different than if it were China or Russia or Nazi Germany.
Very strange to see the enemies of the world's populations here in the United States. It is strange living in an occupied nation.
Ye Gon, the world's biggest meth wholesaler to the Mexican mafia was "apprehended" in Maryland (of all places) under the Bush regime, we refused Mexico's extradition request so we could prosecute, then didn't, Obama is now using his services, http://www.businessinsider.com/zhenli-ye-gon-causes-trouble-for-las-vega... still no prosecution or extradition, he was the guy whose house had that giant Mexican cash haul.
Your Congress knows about the holes in US financial security, the members created and own them in many cases. Viktor may have his money here in real estate, Nancy Polosie's husband has protection, access and uses captial from anywhere if its priced right. The Banks check it you know, not. These rabbit holes are common in the US investment scene. It is just a little disengenous for Treasury to send rush notes when they have negotiated with shadowy off shore money sources for decades. The smoke screens are many and mysterious but not a surprise - please!!!