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Blackhurst Chris - Too Big To Jail Hsbc And The Banking Scandal Of The Century - Paperback
Blackhurst Chris - Too Big To Jail Hsbc And The Banking Scandal Of The Century - Paperback
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Description: ‘ Packed with insights and details that will both amaze and appal you’ – Oliver Bullough author of Moneyland and Butler to the World From journalist Chris Blackhurst Too Big to Jail unveils how HSBC facilitated mass money laundering schemes for brutal drug kingpins and rogue nations – and thereby helped to grow one of the deadliest drugs empires the world has ever seen. While HSBC likes to sell itself as ‘the world’s local bank’ – the friendly face of corporate and personal finance – it was one decade ago hit with a record US fine of $1.9 billion. In pursuit of their goal of becoming the biggest bank in the world between 2003 and 2010, HSBC allowed El Chapo and the Sinaloa cartel one of the most notorious and murderous criminal organizations in the world to turn its ill - gotten money into clean dollars. How did a bank which boasts ‘we’re committed to helping protect the world’s financial system on which millions of people depend by only doing business with customers who meet our high standards of transparency’ come to facilitate Mexico’s richest drug baron? And how did a bank that as recently as 2002 had been named ‘one of the best - run organizations in the world’ become so entwined with one of the most barbaric groups of gangsters on the planet? Too Big to Jail is an extraordinary story brilliantly told by writer commentator and former editor of The Independent Chris Blackhurst that starts in Hong Kong and ranges across London Washington the Cayman Islands and Mexico where HSBC saw the opportunity to become the largest bank in the world and El Chapo seized the chance to fuel his murderous empire by laundering his drug proceeds through the bank. It brings together an extraordinary cast of politicians bankers drug dealers FBI officers and whistle - blowers and asks what price does greed have? Whose job is it to police global finance? And why did not a single person go to prison for facilitating the murderous expansion of a global drug empire?
Title: Too Big To Jail Hsbc And The Banking Scandal Of The Century
Author(s): Blackhurst Chris
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Barcode: 9781529065077
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 9/26/2023
Category: Banking
Description: ‘ Packed with insights and details that will both amaze and appal you’ – Oliver Bullough author of Moneyland and Butler to the World From journalist Chris Blackhurst Too Big to Jail unveils how HSBC facilitated mass money laundering schemes for brutal drug kingpins and rogue nations – and thereby helped to grow one of the deadliest drugs empires the world has ever seen. While HSBC likes to sell itself as ‘the world’s local bank’ – the friendly face of corporate and personal finance – it was one decade ago hit with a record US fine of $1.9 billion. In pursuit of their goal of becoming the biggest bank in the world between 2003 and 2010, HSBC allowed El Chapo and the Sinaloa cartel one of the most notorious and murderous criminal organizations in the world to turn its ill - gotten money into clean dollars. How did a bank which boasts ‘we’re committed to helping protect the world’s financial system on which millions of people depend by only doing business with customers who meet our high standards of transparency’ come to facilitate Mexico’s richest drug baron? And how did a bank that as recently as 2002 had been named ‘one of the best - run organizations in the world’ become so entwined with one of the most barbaric groups of gangsters on the planet? Too Big to Jail is an extraordinary story brilliantly told by writer commentator and former editor of The Independent Chris Blackhurst that starts in Hong Kong and ranges across London Washington the Cayman Islands and Mexico where HSBC saw the opportunity to become the largest bank in the world and El Chapo seized the chance to fuel his murderous empire by laundering his drug proceeds through the bank. It brings together an extraordinary cast of politicians bankers drug dealers FBI officers and whistle - blowers and asks what price does greed have? Whose job is it to police global finance? And why did not a single person go to prison for facilitating the murderous expansion of a global drug empire?
Title: Too Big To Jail Hsbc And The Banking Scandal Of The Century
Author(s): Blackhurst Chris
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Barcode: 9781529065077
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 9/26/2023
Category: Banking