資金洗浄の闇NHKBS汚い銀行Dirty Banking
NHKBSドキュメンタリー番組「汚い銀行(Dirty Banking)」の再放送があり、堅実に見えた銀行でも、利益追求の誘惑に逆らえず、悪徳な資金洗浄に手を染めてしまうのですが、その捜査追求の難しさの難しさを認識させられました。日本のメガバンクも利益追求姿勢の埒外では無く、例えば地域通貨である韓国ウォン貿易輸出入の手助けをして、彼等の国際外貨準備を使わせずに、国際通貨である日本円に依る信用状を発行して口銭を稼ぐと言う手口は一種の資金洗浄では無いかとの疑念を持つに至りました!スウェーデン大手銀行スウエドバンクの国際的マネーロンダリングの闇に迫った報道番組国際エミー賞ノミネート作品 原題:Dirty Banking Sweden 2019ADスウェーデン公共放送SVTがスウェーデンの大手銀行スウエドバンク(Swedbank)を巡る国際的な資金洗浄(Money Laundering)の闇に迫った調査報道番組。取材陣は粘り強い取材を続け、スウエドバンクが約10年間資金洗浄の舞台となっていたことを突き止め、パナマ文書との関連も次々と浮かび上がった。スウェーデン公共放送SVTではInternetを介し、次の様に発表していました!Swedbank may have been used for extensive, systematic money laundering for nearly a decade. 50 of the bank's customers have funneled a total of 5.8 billion US dollars between accounts in Swedbank and Danske Bank in the Baltics, and they are showing several risk indicators of suspected money laundering. We follow stolen money from the most extensive tax fraud of its kind in Russian history to about 50 accounts in Swedbank. Furthermore, bank transactions show that Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort received nearly one million dollars in black money through Swedbank.Mission inquiry has been extensive and fronted in both Swedish and international media. Swedbank's market capitalization decreased by 32 percent and the bank launched its own internal investigation. President and CEO of Swedbank Birgitte Bonnesen was dismissed and Chairman Lars Idermark resigned. CEO and CFO of Swedbank Estonia have been suspended as a consequence of the bank’s ongoing internal investigation. The bank is also under investigation by Financial industry regulators in Sweden and Estonia, and the NY State Department of Financial Services in the USA.