Wonder who got paid what? I’m sure there’s not a “smidgen” of evidence for that.
“The U.S. bank subsidiary of HSBC failed to monitor more than $670 billion in wire transfers and more than $9.4 billion in purchases of physical dollars from its Mexico unit.”
Cartels were showing up with suitcases, they couldn’t hand them through the teller windows. They literally built special boxes that would fit through the teller window to better facilitate them.
And remember, HSBC actually began in Hong Kong, and got huge because of the Chinese opium trade. Its been a British dope bank since the beginning.