[meenie]

This pretty well documents the Mexican connection and the drug trade from Latin America. Most of this occurred during the Clinton administration. What about the Russian connection during the Clinton years? Aid that was distributed and supervised by Gore Bore was sent to Russia and then sent back to Citigroup through the channels of Yeltsen and his daughters accounts. In fact, a Russian was sitting in the New York bank to facilitate the transfers. Citicorp appears to be as dishonest as BCCI ever was.

[Uncle Bill]

Citibank Russian Laundering Claim

The Independent - London
By James Cruickshank in New York
December 10, 2000
Source

A REPORT recently released by the US government has uncovered alleged money- laundering activities through Citibank, the sister company of City financial institution, Schroders Salomon Smith Barney.

A nine-month inquiry which subpoenaed documents and bank records found that an unknown number of Russians and other east Europeans moved more than $1.4bn (pounds 933m) through accounts at Citibank of New York and the Commercial Bank of San Francisco.

The results of the report are being handed over to the US Attorney's office, which will carry out a criminal investigation into the alleged use of the accounts as a conduit for dirty money by organised criminals.

Citigroup acknowledged lapses in its US branch-banking operations that allowed about $725m in questionable Russian funds to flow through more than 100 accounts from 1991 to this year, much of which went to offshore banking havens.

Citigroup's acknowledgement was given in a 15-page letter sent to the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, which has been investigating the ease with which foreign companies can establish shell corporate entities and bank accounts in the US.

Citibank is said to have made $300,000 in fees for the use of the accounts. The lapses in compliance and monitoring in the company's Citibanking unit have come to light at a time of heightened sensitivity over Russian fund transfers through US banks because of the money- laundering investigation into about $7bn in Russian funds transferred through accounts at Bank of New York . That was revealed last year when the Russians asked the FBI for help in tracing $300,000 in ransom money from a kidnapping which led to the money- laundering operation at the Bank of New York .

However, to win a money- laundering case, the authorities must prove that whoever handled the money knew or should have known it was the proceeds of a serious crime and acted to help camouflage its origins. To make matters harder for the investigators, some of the money laundered through Bank of New York was used to buy General Electric and Sony stock.

(Copyright 2000 Independent Newspapers (UK) Limited)

Citigroup Concedes Lapses in Transfer of Russian Funds

GAO Cites Bank Lapses, Suspects Laundering
"Financial services giant Citigroup Inc. and Commercial Bank of San Francisco violated control rules and allowed about $1 billion in possibly illicit Eastern European money to move through their accounts."

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U.S. to Widen Colombian Involvement

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Russian president Vladimir Putin a former KGB colonel who has mob connections

Heist Of The Century

Russia
"The three meetings were with the defense minister of Russia, Mr. Sergeyev, whom I have met before, with the new at that time the prime minister, and the new president of Russia, President Putin, who was out of the country when we arrived and we, understandably, could not meet with him. But the third and perhaps most important meeting was the request that we made to meet with Mr. Skuratov.

Now, Mr. Skuratov is somewhat of a controversial figure. Besides being the chief prosecutor in Russia, he was found to have been involved in and, at least, filmed in what appeared to be on the Russian TV an escapade with a prostitute, or a woman, in a Moscow hotel. After that little bit of film footage was played by the Russian Government on national TV, Boris Yeltsin fired Skuratov.

Now, it just so happens, Madam Speaker, that he was fired the day before he was about to indict senior Russian elected officials who he had found were involved in ripping off hundreds of millions and billions of dollars that were supposed to go to the Russian people."

The Russian Money Trail

An Inconvenient History - The Russian Money Laundering Pyramid

Cheney Led Halliburton To Feast at Federal Trough State Department Questioned Deal With Firm Linked to Russian Mob
"One of these loans was approved in April by the U.S. Export-Import Bank. It guaranteed $489 million in credits to a Russian oil company whose roots are imbedded in a legacy of KGB and Communist Party corruption, as well as drug trafficking and organized crime funds, according to Russian and U.S. sources and documents."

Putin warns of terrorist danger - January 21, 2000

Putin resurrects spectre of KGB
"Under proposals that could be implemented as early as next month, the FSB - the equivalent of MI5 - the SVR, the foreign intelligence agency, and FAPSI, the electronic survelliance body responsible for bugging operations, would merge.

Control of other law enforcement units such as the organised crime squad, now under the interior ministry, could also switch to the security service.

Two veteran KGB men, both friends of Putin, are tipped to lead the service - Nikolai Patrushev, head of the FSB, and Sergei Ivanov, who runs Russia's powerful security council."

Yet Another Long-Winded Op-Ed About Putin

Litvinenko has hinted that he has "information" which shows that Vladimir Putin was behind the bombs which killed 300 people in Moscow more than a year ago. Those bombs, blamed on Chechen terrorists, gave Putin the excuse he needed for a new offensive in Chechnya. That propelled him to victory in the presidential election. If you ask the question, who benefited, the answer is simple: Putin did.

Sound Familiar?

Reports of advances by the Russian army came as Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced that Moscow and Washington were to join forces against Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden, whom Russia accuses of funding the Muslim insurgents in Dagestan. "We have information that bin Laden's people are involved in the events taking place in Dagestan and Chechnya," said Mr Putin.

Bin Laden helped bankroll Dagestan War

Spanish al-Qaeda cell directly involved in US attacks: judge "operating in Bosnia, Chechnya, Afghan"

OKLAHOMA BOMBING LINKED TO BIN LADEN (Captured Chemical Notes Say in Bosnian ‘Was used in Oklahoma’)

Drug War Redux

FBI Investigates Local Ties To Al-Qaida (Chechnya, al-Qaida and American Donations)

Russia Says Arrests Briton with Chechen Links "in possession of bomb-making equipment"

Terrorist camp discovered in Hebron, Wales

Private US firm training both sides in Balkans

Clinton-Approved Iranian Arms Transfers Help Turn Bosnia into Militant Islamic Base

BIN LADEN GATE
"It was also present in all the Muslim republics of the former Soviet Union. Labeviere says, "with the active support of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other oil monarchies and with the benevolence of the American [intelligence] services engaged in these areas, we can expect a ‘Talibanization' of Central Asia, particularly in Chechnya."

Bin Laden’s Invisible Network

Russia Blasts U.S. 'Unfriendly Step' on Chechnya (US meets envoy representing Chechen separatists)

Bin Laden's cook spills the beans on 'escape to Chechnya'

Russia's nuclear arms deemed vulnerable - By Bill Gertz - THE WASHINGTON TIMES - February 23, 2002

Terror war expands to Georgia - U.S. sends troops to former Soviet state to take on al-Qaida