November 29, 2018

Panama Papers

German police raid Deutsche Bank headquarters over alleged money laundering

“The investigation is focused on whether Germany’s biggest bank helped clients set up offshore accounts to transfer money from criminal activities. Police and officials searched six of the bank’s offices, and have seized a number of documents, according to the prosecutor’s office.”

Hamish Boland-Rudder

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My Thoughts

If? …. IF? Deutsche Bank is the one bank in the world that is increasingly caught up in lies, fraud and general shenanigans - ever since the financial crisis actually - and the only bank of note in the world that would do business with Trump and is often found in stories that make you nod your head in wonder.

November 30th

Long after every other bank stopped taking Donald Trump’s calls, Deutsche Bank kept giving him massive loans. Their officers were just raided in connection with a money laundering investigation. (At this point, Follow the Money is not an investigative technique, it’s an extreme endurance sport.

Dave Pell


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