“support the Deep State’s ongoing investment in the Ukraine as their hub of money laundering and biolabs.”
The biolabs have already been dis-proven.
there’s no evidence Ukraine plays a leading role in money laundering.
The Basel Anti-Money Laundering Index is an annual ranking of money laundering and terrorist funding risk on a country-by-country basis. Run by the Swiss-based independent Basel Institute on Governance, the Basel AML Index uses data taken from places such as the World Bank and World Economic Forum.
Ukraine falls in the middle of the rankings with a score of 5.21, whereas Haiti takes the riskiest spot at 8.49 and Andorra takes the safest spot at 2.79. (The U.S. has a score of 4.60.)
Money laundering is a risk across the global financial system, according to Lakshmi Kumar, policy director at Global Financial Integrity.
No country is free of money laundering, Kumar said, and depending on several factors – size of the economy, strength of the judicial system, type of government – the risk of money laundering can rise or fall dramatically.
At the moment, she said, the top-ranked Haiti is “politically chaotic,” which heightens the risk of money laundering. But the size of Haiti’s economy casts doubt on the importance of a country’s index ranking.
For example, the U.S. has a much bigger impact on the global financial system due to the size of its economy, so money laundering in the U.S. “means more,” Kumar said.
Kumar also explained how money laundering between countries also involves a complicated analysis.
“Most of the world’s illicit money leaves the developing world, BUT it finds a place in the developed world,” Kumar said.
“If you isolated and just see this as a problem of Ukraine or Russia, then you ignore the role that US, Europe, the UK, Canada, all play in helping hide this money.”
It’s interesting how the QAnon conspiracy theories are being used to support Putin and his invasion of Ukraine. On the one hand, the world is seen as very simple, black and white - on the other hand to understand this simple world you have to follow a conspiracy theory with its convoluted wheels within wheels to infinity.