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The HSBC Laundry

bristol | drugs and crime | opinion/analysis

Monday July 23, 2012 22:22

by The Saint-Just Mob

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If there was any doubt about the validity of Bertolt Brecht's

question " What is robbing a bank compared to founding a bank?"

then the recent revelation that HSBC bank had been laundering

7 billion dollars of drug money for the savage Sinola drug trafficking

cartel shows how right he was.

As Ed Vulliamy said recently - " the notion of any dichotomy between

the global criminal economy and the "legal" one is fantasy. Worse it

is a lie. They are seamless, mutually interdependent - one and the same"

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