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Seven years ago, I called #LeonardCohen's *Everybody Knows* "the perfect anthem for our times."
> Everybody knows the fight was fixed
> The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
> That’s how it goes
> Everybody knows
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> Everybody knows the fight was fixed
> The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
> That’s how it goes
> Everybody knows
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That was just after Cohen died, and while the world seems to want to settle on *Hallelujah* as his totemic song, *Everybody Knows* keeps inserting itself into the discourse, in the most toxic, hope-draining way possible. 3/
@SquatJogz 1 - What an Honest & Upright Officer of #PakistanArmy #ISI & #IB Brig (R) S A I Tirmazi had written in his book “Profiles of Intelligence” way back in mid 90s ! @Dewan_Syed_Ali @SquatJogz @ahadmha @Sohaib97381710 @NidaFatimaZaidi @KhawajaUsmanUk
@SquatJogz @Dewan_Syed_Ali @ahadmha @Sohaib97381710 @NidaFatimaZaidi @KhawajaUsmanUk 2 - What an Honest & Upright Officer of #PakistanArmy #ISI & #IB Brig (R) S A I Tirmazi had written in his book “Profiles of Intelligence” way back in mid 90s !
@SquatJogz @Dewan_Syed_Ali @ahadmha @Sohaib97381710 @NidaFatimaZaidi @KhawajaUsmanUk 3 - What an Honest & Upright Officer of #PakistanArmy #ISI & #IB Brig (R) S A I Tirmazi had written in his book “Profiles of Intelligence” way back in mid 90s !
HSBC just announced it wants to literally render the planet Earth unfit for human habitation. Let's talk about its other crimes. Remember the #LIBOR scandal? HSBC was neck-deep in it, costing the world's public coffers *trillions* through fraud?
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HSBC used laundered money from the world's most corrupt people to cash in on LIBOR rigging. Remember #SwissLeaks? They paid €300m to settle French money-laundering claims and escaped real consequences in the other countries implicated in the leak:
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What has the last decade of tax haven leaks revealed about Russian offshore wealth?
A comprehensive 🧵:
A comprehensive 🧵:
Before we begin, it must be said that Russian elites are not alone in hiding wealth offshore. Offshore wealth is a prevalent, global phenomenon, estimated in the magnitude of 10% of global GDP - per @annette_als @gabriel_zucman and N. Johannesen:
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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But Russian offshore wealth does have particular features - in scale and nature.
For one, Russian elites hide significant larger proportions of their wealth offshore than large Western states.
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
For one, Russian elites hide significant larger proportions of their wealth offshore than large Western states.
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Look, there's been *another* massive banking leak, this one from @CreditSuisse, showing complicity in laundering money for the world's greatest monsters: human traffickers, despots, criminals. They're calling it #SuisseSecrets.
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theguardian.com/news/2022/feb/… 1/
They had to call it that, because #SwissLeaks was already taken, for the 2015 @UBS leaks that revealed UBS's complicity in the same fucking thing. 2/
As @jneiman77 - lawyer for the Credit Suisse whistleblowers - told @theguardian, "How many rogue bankers do you need to have before you start having a rogue bank?" 3/
🚨 Here's a sobering fact about corruption in SL - One or more Sri Lankans have featured in almost every one of the major leaks associated with offshore tax havens from #PanamaPapers to #SwissLeaks and now #PandoraPapers. Go figure. 1/
Add to the fact that these leaks cover only a fraction of this massive industry and it begs the question - is corruption systemic or has it in fact become "endemic", or native to our system of political power and governance? 2/
This is why at the last general election my criteria was very simple - My ❌ for your Asset Declaration - and in my district of Colombo there was alas, only one solitary candidate. This needs to change. 3/
Séisme mondial.
35 chefs d’État & 130 milliardaires (Tony Blair, DSK, rock-stars etc) épinglés dans les #PandoraPapers pour avoir placé des milliers de milliards de $ à l’abri dans les paradis fiscaux : ils volent l'Etat et font sécession pour satisfaire leurs intérêts privés
35 chefs d’État & 130 milliardaires (Tony Blair, DSK, rock-stars etc) épinglés dans les #PandoraPapers pour avoir placé des milliers de milliards de $ à l’abri dans les paradis fiscaux : ils volent l'Etat et font sécession pour satisfaire leurs intérêts privés
#LuxLeaks
#SwissLeaks
#PanamaPapers
#MaltaFiles
#ParadisePapers
#OpenLux
Et désormais les #PandoraPapers : en moins de 10 ans, ces affaires illustrent combien le système financier international permet et encourage la criminalité en col blanc, en toute impunité.
#SwissLeaks
#PanamaPapers
#MaltaFiles
#ParadisePapers
#OpenLux
Et désormais les #PandoraPapers : en moins de 10 ans, ces affaires illustrent combien le système financier international permet et encourage la criminalité en col blanc, en toute impunité.
En pratiquant l'#EvasionFiscale à grande échelle, chefs d'Etat, milliardaires, stars du showbiz piétinent l'intérêt général : ces milliards d'euros détournés sont autant de crèches, d'écoles, d'hôpitaux qui ne sont pas construits, et de politiques climatiques non menées.
Some things are hard to understand because they're complicated, but when it comes to finance - and finance crimes - we enter the real of things that are complicated so they'll be hard to understand.
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The @Propublica #SecretIRSFiles leaks reveal the wealthy pay infinitesimal amounts of tax and the ultra-rich often pay no tax at all.
Propublica is careful to note that all of this is legal - that it's how the system is supposed to work.
pluralistic.net/2021/06/15/gui…
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Propublica is careful to note that all of this is legal - that it's how the system is supposed to work.
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Former PM Joseph Muscat is testifying in the public inquiry into Daphne's murder.
#JusticeforDaphne #DaphneCaruanaGalizia
#JusticeforDaphne #DaphneCaruanaGalizia
2. Joseph Muscat has accused the public inquiry board of failing in its mission and of violating its terms of reference.
#JusticeforDaphne #DaphneCaruanaGalizia
#JusticeforDaphne #DaphneCaruanaGalizia
3. Joseph Muscat's said of his reaction to Daphne's murder: "I knew immediately that it would mark my political legacy."
#JusticeforDaphne #DaphneCaruanaGalizia
#JusticeforDaphne #DaphneCaruanaGalizia
The #Fincen leaks are the latest finance corruption megaleak, following #ParadisePapers (2017), #PanamaPapers (2016), #SwissLeaks (2015), #Luxleaks (2014). It's a trove of 2100 "Suspicious Activity Reports" (SARs) from the US Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
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The reporting on the leaks was shared among multiple journalism orgs, including @BBCPanorama, @Buzzfeed, and more than 100 other orgs in 88 countries, coordinated by the @ICIJorg, whose master report is a key to the whole leak:
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Here's the nut: the world's largest banks knowingly laundered billions of dollars for the worst criminals, looters and oligarchs in the world. The financial regulators knew they were doing it.
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🚨Today we added 18 new members to our ICIJ family! 😀
Our network now spans 100 countries, with reporters from The Gambia, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, and more added today.
Here is a quick intro to these investigative reporters! (Thread) bit.ly/2vv0EyN
Our network now spans 100 countries, with reporters from The Gambia, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, and more added today.
Here is a quick intro to these investigative reporters! (Thread) bit.ly/2vv0EyN
🇲🇦 First up: Ali Amar, @MarocAmar, from @LeDesk in Morocco joins our family. He’s worked with us on #ImplantFiles, #PanamaPapers and #ParadisePapers.
Here's his work on the #PanamaPapers: ledesk.ma/2016/04/03/pan…
Welcome to the team!!
Here's his work on the #PanamaPapers: ledesk.ma/2016/04/03/pan…
Welcome to the team!!
@MarocAmar @LeDesk 🇨🇱 @aarellanoj joins us from #Chile – where he’s been working for @ciper as a reporter/editor, now contributor, for six years.
He also worked on #PanamaPapers and #ParadisePapers with us!
He also worked on #PanamaPapers and #ParadisePapers with us!
United Nations director general of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) António Vitorino implicated in a 35 million euro Venezuelan corruption scheme.
Case stems from time when he was Spain's ambassador to Venezuela.
thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2019/01/1…
#ButNothingsHappening
Case stems from time when he was Spain's ambassador to Venezuela.
thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2019/01/1…
#ButNothingsHappening
The case also involves the former head of the Venezuelan oil company flying to Madrid to testify, then being found dead in his hotel room.
Money was laundered through shell companies & banks in Panama & Switzerland. I'm sure some of this was exposed by the #PanamaPapers & #Swissleaks.
Which have made it easier for investigators to discover the owners of the shell companies!
Which have made it easier for investigators to discover the owners of the shell companies!
@MindfulnessWins Because they had to develop systems of sources in a hundred countries to track the money laundering through thousands of banks & jurisdictions with bank secrecy rules designed to protect the networks. They've launched multiple operations to drain the Swamp but each got deflected.
@MindfulnessWins Bank of NY case in 1999, Enron in 2003, a bunch of others since then. What will be revealed is that the crooks were using NSA info to spy on the investigators, FINCEN data to warn the targets of investigations, & DOJ word parsing to not go after players that would expose the plot
@MindfulnessWins They would then blame the White Hats for obstructing the investigations so that no one would trust them. They'd let a few scapegoats fall, but make certain the key players & networks were not investigated. 28 years of changes to bank money laundering rules helped the take down.
