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Israel is a Paradise for Money Launderers
Born
on 4th July, 1902
in
Grodno, Russia,
Maier
Suchowljansky, aka Meyer Lansky, the son of Jewish parents. The Lansky
family moved to New York in 1911. Meyer Lansky is credited with starting the
Mafia and established
Israel as a money laundering center
Russian Mafiya money had been welcomed into Israeli banks beginning in the
early 90's and into the election campaigns of well-known Israeli politicians
such as Ariel Sharon and Binyamin Netanyahu. In April
27, 1997
Sever Plotzker had
reported in Yediot
Ahronot, that
Only in Israel can a person enter a bank
with a suitcase that contains a million dollars and deposit the money
without disclosing its source. The result: the estimate of the illicit
capital coming from abroad into Israeli banks is some $45 billion.
Professor Israel Shahak noted:
Laundered money reaching
Israel is one of the important sources of investments in the Israeli
economy ...
The number of Israeli gangsters and their activity has been increasing at
a rapid pace during the last 8 to 10 years.
In February 2000 William Orme reported in the New York
Times that the problem had continued:
Summoned to a downtown bank last month, the police
arrested a woman who they suspected was laundering profits for foreign
racketeers. A native of Chechnya, she had reportedly tried to open an
Israeli account with $50 million in Venezuelan checks in the name of an
apparently fictitious Gibraltar investment firm. If so, it would not have
been the first time Israel had attracted professional money-scrubbers.
In recent months, the authorities have been asked to investigate cash
transfers linked to a $340 million insider-trading deal involving a
Russian telecommunications company and to the huge money laundering
scandal involving the Bank of New York. Last summer, the conviction of an
Israeli crime boss in Miami for running a money laundering business for
the cartel in Cali, Colombia, prompted renewed concern about the recycling
of cocaine money here.
But the police and prosecutors here face an almost insurmountable problem:
Money laundering is not a crime in Israel.
Orme reports that two years earlier, Gregory Lerner, an
immigrant businessman, admitted in court that he had defrauded Russian
banks of $48 million and used the money to try to start a bank In Israel.
He was fined $5 million and sentenced to six years in
prison -- not for bringing in stolen money, but for resorting to bribery,
blackmail and fraud in local dealings.
With expected good-behavior sentence reductions, Mr. Lerner is likely to
be released after one year. He will then be allowed to enjoy his fortune,
which the Israeli authorities cannot touch. Extradition back to Russia,
even if Moscow so requested, would be difficult legally, and unthinkable
politically.
G-7,the world's leading industrial nations, in June
2000, named 15 countries and territories, including Israel, the
Philippines and Russia, as potential havens for ill-gotten wealth.
A decade ago an Israeli citizen who holds an immigrant
certificate, issued on the basis of the "Law of Return," could enter a bank
with a suitcase containing a million dollars and deposit the banknotes in a
special account from which he was entitled to draw money for many years. A
bank employee who might ask where the money comes from would be satisfied
with the answer, "from where I immigrated." There was no need to prove that
this is not laundered Israeli money originating from black business
activity, or worse, from criminal activities.
Israel was a paradise for black money laundering, local
and international. To close this loophole a bill was prepared in the mid
90's forbidding the laundering of capital. Violent objections from
the religious parties
kept the bill from reaching the Knesset.
In June 2000, the Financial Action Task
Force, the primary international agency against money laundering,
blacklisted Israel along with 14 other countries that had failed to
cooperate in the international efforts to combat money laundering. Soon
after, the Israeli Parliament enacted the Prohibition on Money Laundering
Law, 5760–2000.
In January 2002 the
Israeli Financial
Intelligence unit (FIU) was established as prescribed by the Prohibition on
Money Laundering law 5760-2000. In 2005 the name changed to Israel Money
Laundering and Terror Financing Prohibition Authority or
IMPA
In March 7, 2005 Times Online reported that an Israeli bank had been
investigated for a year for money laundering worth hundreds of millions of pounds:
The Israeli authorities announced the arrests after
an undercover operation into a Tel Aviv branch of Hapoalim bank, one
of the wealthiest financial institutions in the Jewish state, and the
Bank Hapoalim Trust Co.
"Twenty-two employees are
incriminated at the Hayarkon street branch on the Tel Aviv sea front
and have been arrested for questioning," a police spokesman said.
He added that employees had failed to
report suspicions about large sums of money being transferred abroad.
Israel was only removed
from the OECD’s money laundering blacklist in 2002 after passing a law
that tightened scrutiny over financial transactions.
A police statement said: "evidence was accumulated apparently
indicating that offences have been committed against the Prohibition
on Money Laundering Law by some of the customers, staff and managers
of the (Hapoalim) branch and the Trust Co.
"It is suspected that the sums involved in this illegal activity
amounted to several hundred million dollars and involved various
parties abroad," it added.
On Sep 27, 2007, Reuters reported that funding to Hamas
had been channeled through Israel's largest commercial bank, Bank Hapoalim.
"Chabad leaders arrested for alleged theft, money-laundering" reported
Ha'aretz in November 2007.
In December 2007,
the leader of an Orthodox
Jewish group was arrested along with several others on suspicion of tax
fraud and laundering money through an Israeli bank and several business in
the jewelry district in downtown Los Angeles. Naftali Tzi Weisz, the
59-year-old Grand Rabbi of Spinka, and Gabbai Moshe E. Zigelman, 60, both of
Brooklyn, N.Y., were named in a 37-count
federal grand jury
indictment in Los Angeles. The indictment claims that Weisz and Zigelman
promised to secretly refund up to 95 percent of millions of dollars of
contributions to several Spinka charities.
Agence France Presse reported February 2008 that:
French bank Societe Generale and its embattled chairman
went on trial along with three other lenders Monday over a vast
money-laundering scam between France and Israel dating back to the 1990s.
Clearly, the State of Israel is in a state of moral
confusion about being a good neighbor in the community nations, providing a
happy refuge to criminal refugees from the many nations. Israel has always
turned a blind eye to the origin of funds deposited by Jews from South
Africa to Russia, a habit that Israelis seems reluctant to break.
History of Banking Fraud:
The Coming Battle
By M. W. WALBERT
The
Coming Battle documents from Congressional records, newspaper reports
and writings by the founding fathers and others a chronology of events long
forgotten that shaped our fledgling nation from 1776 to 1899. Read about the
manipulation of our money and its supply, the intentional creation of
recessions, depressions and panics, manipulation of the stock markets, and
the demonetization of silver.
Secrets of the Federal Reserve
by Eustace Mullins
Eustace Mullins' carefully
researched and documented treatise picks up from Walbert's expose' of
control of the money supply and the economy and
brings it to the mid 1980's.
The
World Order
by Eustace Mullins
How control of the world's money has inexorably led to an ever tighter
grip on control of the world's people.
Uranium Wars by Leuren Moret
How control of the world's people has inexorably led to wider use of
depopulation methods which include spreading radioactivity in food,
water, air, and the human genome.
Taking Back Your Power
by Allen Aslan Heart
WHAT CAN YOU DO? Stop playing THEIR game.
Take back your power. Stop paying taxes that are not legal or lawful. Stop
paying bills you don't really owe. Stop using THEIR money. There ARE ways if
you open your mind and look for the gaps in their fences that keep the
sheeple in their pasture. Are you chattel or a real person? You are the one
who makes that choice.
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