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Is The US State Department Guilty Of Money Laundering?

by Mark on June 18th, 2007

Funny MoneyWant to learn more about money laundering?

Offshore money, drug money, fraud money, dirty money or just plain old cash…..listen to Mr. Ken Rijock from World Check. Mr. Rijock is a Financial Crime Consultant based in out of Miami, FL, USA. He has quite a reputation around the globe and has for many years been helping law enforcement catch the crooks. Read a bit here about Ken.

“After serving as a banking lawyer in an international law firm, he spent the decade of the 1980s as a money launderer and advisor to narcotics trafficking organisations operating in North and South America. He has extensive experience in money laundering tactics and tradecraft. Whilst serving a federal prison sentence for racketeering and money laundering, he assisted with the first joint Swiss-American money laundering investigation of bankers and lawyers, and which resulted in a major seizure of the proceeds of crime. He has more than 25 year’s experience in the field of money laundering, as a practicing laundryman, financial institution compliance consultant, and trainer/lecturer to law enforcement and the intelligence services of both the United States and Canada.

Three days ago, Mr. Rijock published this article on the World Check web site.

Is State Department now guilty of money laundering?

15 June 2007

A number of US legislators have asked the General Accounting Office, the government’s watchdog group, to enquire into whether current efforts by the US State Department to give the North Korean government back the $25m seized at Banco Delta Asia constitutes money laundering. Is this partisan politics or simply exposing the truth about a US government agency breaking the law? The scary thing is these legislators may be right.

If we accept as true the fact that BDA money was the proceeds of crime, then whatever the State Department does to refund that money for political reasons is a crime. Frankly, asking a US bank to assist in transferring money, and offering to exempt that unnamed bank from the law puts foreign policy above the law. How can you exempt a financial institution from the anti-money laundering laws we have in place? Is this not fundamentally wrong?

It is rumored that a Russian bank has agreed to take the funds from the US bank, and then forward them to the North Korean government. As soon as there is any meaningful verification of this, World-Check will update its readers on this important topic. Latest reports say $20m was remitted yesterday; we await confirmation of thr amount and the identity of the financial institution that was the recipient.

I encourage you to take a few minutes and check out the material on their web, they are some of the best minds in the world on this topic. They also provide services to businesses around the globe working to prevent criminal activity.
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