Banks and bandits

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In 2014, Russia took the chair in the G8 (G8), whose summit will be held in early June in Sochi. According to the provisional agenda, the summit will focus on the issues of combating drug trafficking and terrorism, as well as offshore companies. These global problems are directly or indirectly related to the banking sector, which systematically provides the criminal world with an extensive list of services. We started talking about this in the article “International Drug Business and Money-Laundering”. In this article, the technique of banks providing such services to the drug business, international terrorism, and other forces of organized crime is discussed in more detail.

1. Principles of organization of banking "washing"

The key feature of dirty money is that it is cash in the form of paper currency. Their laundering is carried out both with the participation of banks and without their participation. The second option involves, for example, the acquisition of cash houses and other real estate. However, not in all countries the law allows such transactions.

The gold market is used quite widely for money laundering. Significant turnover of trade in this metal remains in the shadow sphere. The gold acquired in such shadow markets is then sold through mafia-controlled enterprises for the extraction and refining of gold on the white market of the precious metal.

In a number of countries, anonymous financial instruments such as stocks and bearer bonds are widespread. Dirty money can be used to purchase such securities and then sell them and accumulate the money in bank accounts.

The option of money laundering involving banks is fundamental when it comes to large sums, measured in tens of millions of dollars. First of all, drug dealers are turning to banks and other financial institutions for money laundering services. According to the report of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), of the total turnover of dirty money received from all forms of cross-border organized crime, at least 70% is laundered through financial institutions. In addition to banks, insurance companies and various investment funds, including “charity” funds that are widely used in the United States, can perform this function.

We note some features of this process.

First, money laundering is often multistage, money passes through a chain of several banks and other financial institutions. Multi-stagedness guarantees absolute “whiteness” of money at the exit, although such a scheme is associated with additional costs.

Secondly, before getting into the “washing machine” of the financial and banking sector, money usually undergoes a preliminary “cleaning” in various small commercial institutions. These are restaurants, casinos, entertainment centers, hotels, cinema halls and other institutions whose business is connected with cash. These are mainly service firms; Imitation of the sale of services is much easier than imitation of the sale of goods. Cash is credited to the bank accounts of commercial "laundering" organizations. In some cases, the bank is at the end of a chain of sequential laundering, in which several one-day companies participate. Each of these companies is created only in order to take the money and transfer it to the next link in the chain.

Thirdly, the establishment of dirty money in the banking system is carried out mainly in countries that do not belong to the group of economically developed ones. Only at the subsequent stages of the money fall into the banking system of the West, then to be invested in the white economy. In many washing schemes, banks and firms located in offshore zones play an important role, where not only is tax evasion provided, but also complete confidentiality of operations. Offshore structures often act as an intermediary link between Western banks and peripheral banks of the global financial system.

Leading Western banks are creating a wide transnational network of their branches, subsidiaries and grandchildren in Central and South America, West Africa, Southeast Asia, and Russia. It is rightly believed that these transnational giants are expanding to conquer new credit and money markets, but they almost never mention such a motive of their activity as dirty money laundering. This is why it is not possible to establish effective financial and banking control in the countries of the periphery of world capitalism, that such control directly contradicts the interests of the largest banks and the drug mafia ...

Misha Glenny (Misha Glenny) in his book "Shadow Lords" gives examples of how control over the movement of dirty money is organized in the American Citibank branch in a small state in Dubai. In fact, there is only the appearance of control. The bank never refuses big money. M. Glenni cites the story of a successful entrepreneur, Ranko Lukic, operating mainly in the gray sector of the economy. When Lukach first arrived in Dubai and transferred thousands of dollars to 3 to his Dubai lawyer from the local Citibank branch, he was soon pretty shocked. Let us give the floor to Lukács: “Some aggressive type calls me and asks:“ What is the purpose of this money transfer? ”I say to him: this is none of your business, this only concerns me and my lawyer. I was terribly amazed: I had to fill out some form, and only then they translated these lousy three pieces! True, Citibank is an American company.

When I had to send two transfers of 2 million euros to a bank in the Emirates to buy property along Sheikh Zayid Avenue, the bank called me and said: "Please tell me what the origin of this money is?" I answer them: it comes from my tobacco plantations in Zimbabwe! They say ok and don't ask any more questions. It is done! Why should they be interested in where I get the money? If they ask too many questions, they won't sell anything here! "

2. Private Banking - a service for bandits

To launder dirty money in 90-ies. the last century, in the large Western banks began to create special units that provide private banking services - private banking (BH). B & W services are intended for very rich clients who are willing to place amounts in the bank from a million dollars. First of all, such services are attractive to customers with dirty money. B & W units receive money from customers for managing their accounts and providing special services that go beyond the ordinary. Such services include investment advice, real estate, taxes, offshore accounts, the development of complex schemes for “noticing the traces” of moving money. Private Banking units usually offer customers code names for accounts, concentrated accounts that merge bank money with customer money and disguise customer money flow, recommended by offshore private investment companies located in countries with strict bank secrecy laws. In recent years, banking and other supervisory authorities of Western countries have managed to bring some order in the operations of security agencies in the United States, Western Europe, and other economically developed countries. But on the periphery of world capitalism, the units of the BH still remain a “hole” through which billions of dirty money flow into the world banking system.

In addition to the BW, carried out in branches and subsidiaries of multinational banks, dirty money laundering through correspondent accounts is also used. Such accounts allow foreign banks to serve their customers (including drug dealers and other criminals) in places such as the United States where they do not have branches or subsidiaries. A bank registered abroad and not located in the United States attracts rich criminals who want to launder money in the United States. Without being controlled in the USA and avoiding high expenses for branches, the bank opens a correspondent account in one of the banks in the USA. Thus, overseas banks (called respondents) and their criminal clients receive many or all types of services provided by large US banks (called correspondent banks). In 2001, the scandalous story With the massive transfer of dirty money through the correspondent accounts of leading American banks became the subject of discussion in the Upper House of Congress. The press wrote: “According to the senators, in recent years, 12 offshore banks have transferred billions of dollars through correspondent accounts with American banks. Among the banks in which, according to senators, “there is no adequate money-laundering control system,” four of the country's six largest banks were named: Citibank, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America and First Union. The current hearings will be devoted to the practice of maintaining correspondent accounts and the fight against money laundering, passing through US banks. For Citibank, the hearings are of particular importance in light of the suspicious cases recently discovered in this bank. No other bank in the world has such a wide network of representative offices. Citibank executives, as well as some analysts, say that the bank’s large-scale international activities create additional problems for it in the fight against unscrupulous clients. ”

3. Laundering through correspondent accounts

Commenting on the participation of American banks in money laundering through correspondent accounts, James Petras wrote: “Many of the largest banks in Europe and the US in financial centers serve as correspondents for thousands of other banks. Most offshore banks laundering billions for criminal clients have US accounts. Some of the largest banks specializing in international money transfers (central money banks) transfer up to a trillion non-cash dollars a day. In June 1999, the five largest correspondent bank holdings in the United States kept over 17 billions of dollars in balance, the total amount of correspondent balance sheets of 75, the largest correspondent banks in the USA, was 34,9 billion dollars. For billionaire criminals, correspondent banks are important because they provide access to the international money transfer system — this makes it easy to transfer money across borders and within countries. According to the latest estimates (1998), in 60 offshore zones around the world around 4000 offshore banks are registered, which control approximately 5 trillions of dollars. ”

The same James Petras, several years later (in 2011), admitted that the situation with the money-laundering of Wall Street banks became even more catastrophic: “Almost every major US bank has been involved in laundering hundreds of billions of dollars of drug profits over the past 10 ... provided and protected by the ability of cartels to launder and transfer billions of dollars to accounts, using the American banking system. The scale of cooperation between American banks and drug dealers leaves behind any other type of banking system activity ... Any large bank in the United States was a major financial partner of criminal drug cartels - Bank of America, Citibank, JP Morgan, as well as foreign banks operating in New York, Miami, Los “Angeles and in London.”
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  1. AVV
    +14
    8 February 2014 15: 21
    In banking operations, America earns many billions of dollars and nobody really cares what way they are earned, the main profit! Banks of America have become a global cesspool for laundering criminal profits! If all production is removed from the jurisdiction of the states, then they have to earn in this way and others are taught !!! Featured Yeshkin cat !!!
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      1. +3
        8 February 2014 16: 28
        You are a minus from me, you need to think and do not need to spit, whatever it is like in the picture, because America also needs to be saved from the slavery of banks, but first you need to figure it out
        1. +1
          8 February 2014 18: 04
          Quote: ars_pro
          You are a minus from me, you need to think and do not need to spit, whatever it is like in the picture, because America also needs to be saved from the slavery of banks, but first you need to figure it out

          What I like. You and America will save. You are a natural D "Artagnan. And around you there are only 3,14 doras. And if you drink less beer. You will understand that this is not the slavery of banks." Darling "is the reality of the Gold-domed. Central Asian dogs of the Baskervilles.
          I won’t even minus, I disdain
          1. S_mirnov
            +12
            8 February 2014 18: 56
            I never understood why our people need so many banks, because purely parasitic structures do not produce anything, but drink the blood of the working population (loans). It's time to nationalize at the root! Leave one state bank and that's enough. To whom loan is taken - will take there. And tightly under state control.
            True, the state must be thoroughly cleaned before this. recourse
            1. +1
              8 February 2014 22: 55
              Quote: S_mirnov
              I never understood why our people need so many banks, because purely parasitic structures,


              Do you offer instead of banks of foreign exchange companies (by the way an indestructible tribe, why not?)? Change shops and money-lenders not paying taxes? Banks need this aksioma t, but not gangster and not foreign, such as a home loan with its 70 percent per annum.

              Quote: S_mirnov
              Leave one state bank and that's enough.

              There were banks even in the USSR. On January 1, 1989, in the USSR there were only 43 commercial and cooperative banks,
              1. S_mirnov
                +2
                8 February 2014 23: 11
                Quote: Vadivak
                You offer instead of banks of foreign exchange

                No, I propose instead of private banks - one state! And foreigners and bankers - behind bars.
                Quote: Vadivak
                Change shops and money-lenders not paying taxes?

                Are you talking about modern pawnshops and all sorts of nanocredits?
                Quote: Vadivak
                Banks need it akisioma

                For those who do not understand what banks are, this is really an axiom! For those who think - no!
                Quote: Vadivak
                There were banks even in the USSR. On January 1, 1989, in the USSR there were only 43 commercial and cooperative banks,

                And how did it end for the USSR? fool
                1. +1
                  8 February 2014 23: 29
                  Quote: S_mirnov
                  For those who do not understand what banks are, this is really an axiom!


                  Yes, for God's sake, take money at 100 percent from the bandits. Take cash instead of cashless payments, pay at the cash desk and not at the terminals, get paid in queues, good luck
                  Quote: S_mirnov
                  And how did it end for the USSR?


                  What does the jar have to do with it? This is for Misha.
                  Quote: S_mirnov
                  I propose instead of private banks - one state!


                  It’s like a model of a Lada in the USSR - one forever. Will not work. Stalin, I think, was smarter than us.
          2. -1
            8 February 2014 19: 39
            No one is going to argue with reality, but sometimes it is necessary to change it and preferably for the better, beer if I don’t drink anything, I have good opinions about my neighbors, since a person thinks about others, others will think about a person, the law such. But the fact that the financial and banking system of the same USA, for example, is supposedly to collapse in March, gives reason to think, and not only for us. I really didn’t understand about the Central Asian dogs of the Baskervilles fellow
            1. +1
              8 February 2014 22: 57
              Quote: ars_pro
              I don’t drink beer anymore,


              Similarly. After they stopped sowing malting barley (except for export) and hops, it became unclear what we were drinking.
        2. +2
          8 February 2014 18: 14
          and then the gdp and the FSB do not know ...
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        4. 0
          9 February 2014 02: 21
          Quote: ars_pro
          You are a minus from me, you need to think and do not need to spit, whatever it is like in the picture, because America also needs to be saved from the slavery of banks, but first you need to figure it out


          minus you too. the corpse must not be saved but buried. in the case of America, bury it in cattle cemeteries for concrete.
      2. -2
        8 February 2014 18: 19
        Quote: ele1285
        Yes, spit on America, spit on profits, spit on banks, think what awaits us Russia 2100

        Are these your descendants?
        1. +2
          8 February 2014 18: 57
          Quote: Vasya
          Are these your descendants?

          no Vasya, this is Moscow. well, you can choose the most beautiful for yourself. And you will be the most dancing, well, and adopt a relative.
      3. 0
        8 February 2014 19: 06
        What are you talking about? make yourself more clear.
    2. +2
      8 February 2014 20: 11
      In banking operations, America earns many billions of dollars and nobody really cares where they are earned, the main profit

      Moreover, the rules of these operations themselves develop for themselves loved ones. And our state. figures look at them like a rabbit at a boa constrictor. And to hell with us such rabbits? I’m not afraid of reptiles, but of our cowardly state. I despise figures.
      1. +2
        8 February 2014 22: 59
        Quote: v53993
        the rules of these operations themselves develop for their loved ones.


        Not at all. Everything is under the control of the Central Bank. Only different percentages.
        1. +1
          9 February 2014 00: 02
          For me, the caliber for them can be different. Although, one (caliber) is enough. Personalities, by nature a petty crook. colormet unworthy. Ropes enough, without soap, did not work.
    3. 0
      8 February 2014 23: 56
      Quote: AVV
      In banking operations, America earns many billions of dollars and nobody really cares what way they are earned, the main profit! Banks of America have become a global cesspool for laundering criminal profits!

      We also forgot to mention the Pentagon, which has become the center for the distribution of dirty money. A special operation undercover. Transportation of goods. And strange coincidences with drug distribution centers in Europe, coinciding with the US Air Force bases.
      And fairly well-known facts about the drug trade in the Iran-Contras scandal, well, here ad infinitum .............
  2. +8
    8 February 2014 16: 05
    This is not Russia took the chair in the eight. This is power.
    Power is not Russia. Russia does not respect Chubais and other students of Yegor Daidar.
    Well, purely "One of our own among strangers and a stranger among our own"!
    1. +4
      8 February 2014 18: 21
      Quote: My address
      Well, purely "One of our own" and a stranger among our own "!

      Namesake, wake up, we are in such dung, I want to burp. I only agree that the power is not Russia. But the people are also not power.
      Well, it's purely "who is the priest, who is the priest's daughter, and who will have enough of the priest's dog
      1. +2
        8 February 2014 22: 07
        What wake up from?

        That the state (in the sense of power, enforcement agencies, etc.) and the country (in the sense of the people, territory, culture, and the like) are different things, although related, I have known for more than forty years. Another thing is that since then the difference has increased several times ...
    2. +4
      8 February 2014 23: 39
      Quote: My address
      Power is not Russia.


      These are her best representatives.
      1. +2
        9 February 2014 00: 07
        These are her best representatives.

        Vadim! Well, you could not spoil the mood by exhibiting such organisms? Saturday all the same.
  3. +1
    8 February 2014 16: 18
    who will fight against drugs and terrorism? Yes, not in the heat. this is their income, and almost basic
  4. +1
    8 February 2014 16: 30
    All evil emanates from the evil empire.
    1. 0
      9 February 2014 00: 41
      Please be more precise: plus empires of LIES and shamelessness.
  5. +2
    8 February 2014 16: 32
    It would be a wish, long ago everyone would decide! And they will get together, make smart faces, smile at each other ... and until the next G8!
  6. +4
    8 February 2014 16: 37
    I wonder how much "dirty" money has been poured into our Maidan.

    I think according to a saying: -Spring will show who went where to.
  7. +3
    8 February 2014 16: 42
    Banks and bandits

    You have an error in the name.
    Correctly:
    Banks are bandits.
  8. +6
    8 February 2014 16: 42
    Banks arose at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries, along with the strengthening of statehood and the growth of absolutism in European monarchies. They developed from usurious Jewish offices, supplying monarchs and aristocracy with money, and were originally a tool robbery of subjects(peopleOne of the largest banking empires, the Rothschilds, traces its ancestry precisely from these times. Banking "business" is the art of making money out of nothing, out of, literally, air. It is a boil on the body of the economy.
  9. +3
    8 February 2014 16: 57
    Actually, the title of the article makes banks and bandits think for a while. Nowadays, bankers and bandits are something unified.
  10. +3
    8 February 2014 17: 20
    Now the Russian government has started strange actions with savings books (savings of our citizens), it seems to me that another scam is being planned to honestly take money from citizens in collusion with bankers.
  11. +4
    8 February 2014 18: 03
    Big money is dirty money!
  12. +6
    8 February 2014 18: 03
    They would try to launder unearned income in the USSR. Here is the solution to the question. The maximum that could be done to outbid a winning lottery ticket with ridiculous, according to current concepts, income.
  13. +2
    8 February 2014 18: 51
    Quote: dropout
    I wonder how much "dirty" money has been poured into our Maidan.

    Maybe there is not enough clean money in the West for a long time and they are only for "internal use". And for dark deals, drug dollars are used, which cannot be tracked - and there are no guilty ones.
    And not only drugs, but also modern pirates receive money (supposedly ransom) from competing companies that are not at hand, through respectable banks in London and New York.
  14. +4
    8 February 2014 18: 54
    Yes, the whole world is already under the control of these same banks, just some countries are bigger, some are smaller. Few dare to challenge them. Capitalism, by the way, cannot without crises, on which these very banks profit, sooner or later they are their own they’ll drive the world into a crisis that can be resolved only by the next big war. Most likely, greed will destroy them.
  15. +3
    8 February 2014 19: 13
    If England almost officially imported drugs to China, and forced them to buy, then the banks' laundering of "narcotic" money is just an easy walk.
  16. +2
    8 February 2014 19: 24
    Bankers at one time and came out of the environment of not quite honest citizens And are guided only by the rule "MONEY DOESN'T SMELL". And whoever has the money and the power bought for the money It is not a secret for anyone that any elections in democratic countries cost good money. From your own pocket or from sponsors And you need to recapture what you have spent! (philanthropists are only in fairy tales, but in Russia in the old days) And how to recapture the investment? Not for the salary of an official or a deputy. And through various machinations and gray fraudulent schemes and "convenient" laws. Banks are right there By the way, why would state-owned companies keep opaque accounts, for example, in the Cyprus offshore ?. All this incident that has surfaced recently is remembered.So we have fun and live ...
    1. +1
      8 February 2014 23: 17
      Quote: AIR-ZNAK
      Bankers at one time and left the environment of not quite honest citizens


      Are you out of your mind? To write this? For example, the son of the former director of the FSB and now secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Nikolai Patrushev, Dmitry Patrushev himself is a graduate of the FSB Academy, several higher educations, doctor of sciences, defended his thesis at St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance, head of the Russian Agricultural Bank
      1. +2
        8 February 2014 23: 38
        Quote: Vadivak
        For example, the son of the former director of the FSB and now the secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Nikolai Patrushev, Dmitry Patrushev himself is a graduate of the FSB Academy, several higher educations, doctor of sciences, defended his dissertation at St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance, head of the Russian Agricultural Bank


        Good evening, Vadim! hi
        Here is the same mess in our country,all for patronage. Imagine for a moment that Dmitry Patrushev is not the son of the dad you mentioned, and what then?! I’ll also give an example about the son of the odious dad Pogosyan, who turned the Sukhoi company into their patrimony. So, family MMM, What’s in Azerbaijan, in Russia,a kind of caste was createdby which the road is open wherever others have ordered the road. am I would personally pass them through a meat grinder.
        1. +1
          8 February 2014 23: 41
          Yes, unfortunately this is happening in all the republics of the former USSR. Once the dad is in power, the son is obliged to run the bank or the corporation somewhere. In a word, the family of managers laughing I wonder who would Patrushev’s son be if dad were an ordinary engineer?
          1. +1
            8 February 2014 23: 46
            Quote: lonely
            Yes, unfortunately this is happening in all the republics of the former USSR. Once the dad is in power, the son is obliged to run the bank or the corporation somewhere. In a word, the family of managers

            My hands itch on such, with great pleasure, smeared them on the wall.
            1. 0
              8 February 2014 23: 53
              Quote: Apollon
              My hands itch on such, with great pleasure, smeared them on the wall.


              Calm Apollo, take care of your nerves! It’s impossible to do anything yet. This situation so far suits the majority. That's when the majority starts opposing what’s going on, then you’ll spread it on the wall if you find anyone)) 100% will run like rats from a sinking bulk carrier))
        2. +1
          8 February 2014 23: 46
          Greetings to Appolon hi So this is the wrong side of capitalism, as they say, what they fought for .... Regrettably
          1. +2
            8 February 2014 23: 49
            Quote: sds555
            So this is the wrong side of capitalism, as they say, what they fought for .... Regrettably

            Capitalism differs in form, the form of capitalism you mentioned is nothing other than white-collar banditry.
            Quote: sds555
            Greetings to Appolon

            Good evening hi
            1. +4
              8 February 2014 23: 58
              Quote: Apollon
              Capitalism varies in form


              Yes, and in content. With us it is, to say the least, unlimited. In Norway, for example, all citizens own a portion of gas and oil, and we have the public domain
              1. +2
                9 February 2014 00: 03
                Quote: Vadivak
                Yes, and in content

                good supplemented and removed from the tongue
                Quote: Vadivak
                We have it, to put it mildly, unlimited

                We are even worse. am
                The issue with the Customs Union is skidding, then V.V. Putin and his oligarchs would have to deal with the nouveau riche bandits from the former Soviet republics, I assure you there will be no interethnic conflicts, no Maidan or another mess.
                Not the TS, but right away we will go to the new Union by leaps and bounds.
                1. +2
                  9 February 2014 00: 13
                  Quote: Apollon
                  The issue with the Customs Union is skidding, if Putin would have to figure it out with his oligarchs then to take up the nouveau riche bandits from the former Soviet republics, I assure you there will be no interethnic conflicts, no Maidan or another mess.
                  Not the TS, but right away we will go to the new Union by leaps and bounds.

                  Eh ... Your words would be yes to God in the ears .. Remove this social injustice hi
                2. +2
                  9 February 2014 00: 16
                  Quote: Apollon
                  to understand V.V. Putin with his oligarchs


                  Understood the joke. Keyword "friendly"
                  1. +2
                    9 February 2014 00: 22
                    Quote: Apollon
                    to understand V.V. Putin with his oligarchs

                    Quote: Vadivak
                    Understood the joke. Keyword "friendly"

                    No, Vadim, this is not a joke, in all seriousness, under the word their I mean the Russian oligarchs, even those who are close friends, would set an example, for example, to citizens from neighboring republics. I imagine how the nerves of the local khans of the bays and other evil spirits would shake. I assure the citizens from neighboring states that they would spit on everything would have rushed into the arms of Russia. good
            2. +1
              8 February 2014 23: 59
              Apollo
              Good evening hi I agree with you on something, in the expanses of the former post-Soviet republics, this happens due to the specifics of the development of wild capitalism, but even in countries with developed capitalism everything is almost exactly the same, but only in a more veiled form (there is a lobby, clans, but all this is hidden behind a screen of external decency, otherwise the electorate will not understand)
          2. 0
            8 February 2014 23: 54
            Quote: sds555
            So this is the wrong side of capitalism, as they say, what they fought for .... Regrettably


            Man, what kind of capitalism is natural feudalism, it doesn’t even smell like capitalism))
            1. +1
              9 February 2014 00: 06
              alone
              Well, I’m saying specifics. Our people live by the principle if only it wouldn’t be worse, but is it feudalism or wild capitalism? hi
        3. +2
          8 February 2014 23: 50
          Quote: Apollon
          Good evening, Vadim!

          Kind. Always with respect.

          Quote: Apollon
          a kind of caste was created


          Sometimes the daughter of State Duma Deputy Alexander Remezkov (United Russia) plays for Austria in gymnastics competitions, Stepan Aleksandrovich Remezkov studied in Britain since 2005, and then left for the United States. The middle son Nikolai is now studying at a British school, which Stepan previously graduated from.
        4. Patriot of Ukraine
          0
          9 February 2014 02: 13
          which in other ways is not surprising because it was a crap from you for centuries. And this family contract came to Russia precisely from the Caucasus. This is how Vasya Stalin (a complete drunk) could ask about jumping up the ranks of such eagles as Pokryshkina and Kozheduba ??? not a day at the same time sniffing gunpowder? And you will continue to tell tales as a strict father constantly deleted his son from the lists for the presentation of the general’s rank, which, oddly enough, did not prevent him from becoming the youngest general in the Air Force. Although Novikov really did it (crossed out) for which he was turned into camp dust.
  17. +1
    8 February 2014 19: 31
    While it is profitable, it will flourish and expand. And to those who try to fight this, their heads will be removed at a time.
  18. Stepanov Vladimir Sergeevich
    +1
    8 February 2014 21: 41
    good article
  19. +4
    8 February 2014 22: 05
    S_mirnov:

    “It's high time to nationalize at the root! Leave one state bank and that's enough. Whoever wants to take a loan will take it there. And strictly under state control.
    The truth is, before that, the state needs to be decently cleaned "

    Ha! For this, the USSR is again needed. To make a Russian bank state-owned is to restore full sovereignty. Who will allow, while the state is not cleaned.
    1. +2
      8 February 2014 23: 35
      Quote: siberalt
      Leave one state bank and that's enough.


      And we have several State Banks. Only here are clients from the state. Sber's rudeness, for example, is not thrilled.
      1. +1
        8 February 2014 23: 47
        But what kind of state-owned banks are they if they are not entitled to issue ruble? There is one, and that is not ours.
        1. +2
          9 February 2014 00: 01
          Quote: siberalt
          What kind of state banks are these?


          Ordinary, with a share in the state capital. Emission has nothing to do with it. This is the central bank.
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  20. +2
    8 February 2014 22: 35
    Ha! For this, the USSR is again needed. To make a Russian bank state-owned is to restore full sovereignty. Who will allow, while the state is not cleaned.

    So there will be a USSR and there will be Stalin, rather than some think. They got already orange-blue, even I have a lieutenant colonel of the reserve, my hands are itching to clean out all this pigeon droppings.
    1. +2
      8 February 2014 23: 19
      Quote: v53993
      So there will be the USSR and there will be Stalin,


      Oh, there was a time!
      1. +1
        8 February 2014 23: 57
        Exactly! Until 1953, the USSR once participated in the Helsinki Olympics (1952). Before that, they washed gold.
        1. +2
          9 February 2014 00: 10
          Quote: siberalt
          Exactly! Until 1953, the USSR once participated in the Helsinki Olympics (1952.

          the second team place in the unofficial team event, for the first time you know very well, but the leadership didn’t think so, some comrades passed certificates of masters of sports


          If you have a mozilla change your browser to Yandex, there will be no retries, checked
          1. Patriot of Ukraine
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            9 February 2014 01: 50
            horseradish advice.
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      8 February 2014 23: 44
      Quote: v53993
      So there will be a USSR and there will be Stalin, rather than some think. They got already orange-blue, even I have a lieutenant colonel of the reserve, my hands are itching to clean out all this pigeon droppings.

      It’s still necessary to look for a second Stalin. Can you tell me who you mean, is there such a candidate?
      1. alexsey7777
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        9 February 2014 00: 07
        Quote: lonely
        Quote: v53993
        So there will be a USSR and there will be Stalin, rather than some think. They got already orange-blue, even I have a lieutenant colonel of the reserve, my hands are itching to clean out all this pigeon droppings.

        It’s still necessary to look for a second Stalin. Can you tell me who you mean, is there such a candidate?


        Maybe it's still not worth it? For it has long been known that the country by and large was not driven by Stalin himself, but by his entourage ...
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          9 February 2014 00: 10
          Quote: alexsey7777
          For it has long been known that a country by and large it was not Stalin who taxied, and his surroundings.

          It seems that you were entering this same environment. Do not write nonsense. Otherwise, they will laugh.
      2. Patriot of Ukraine
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        9 February 2014 01: 54
        Yes, anyone who agrees to sign the new Bretton Woods is suitable for his role. Another thing is that most likely they will sign with the Chinese. But there are options if you in Russia will be replaced by Vova Obeshalkin someone with steel eggs and a clear head.
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    9 February 2014 00: 44
    It's not just drug laundering. And with the shadow arms trade, and with transactions bypassing sanctions and the embargo, and tax evasion, and financing all sorts of different .... and much, much more, which far from criminals are involved (in the classical sense).
    There is a lot of varied demand for such "services" that one can seriously dream of "complete eradication".
    IMHO, measures to combat are effective only against the "outdated" schemes, and then with the appropriate "permissions" ... Sad. But it seems true ... crying
  23. alexsey7777
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    9 February 2014 06: 25
    Quote: Apollon
    Quote: alexsey7777
    For it has long been known that a country by and large it was not Stalin who taxied, and his surroundings.

    It seems that you were entering this same environment. Do not write nonsense. Otherwise, they will laugh.


    What about slipping the right pieces of paper at the right time to sign for the execution of a person? His signature was purely formal. During the war, Stalin himself practically did not intervene in the course and operations of the war, relying on marshals and generals. His rulilka ended with the beginning of the "death conveyor" of the 37th.
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