'While HSBC's Canary Wharf masters are
back-peddling furiously over charges that they gave a leg up to
terrorist financiers and drug traffickers as a recent U.S. Senate report
charged, new evidence emerged that its business as usual for the
multinational banking giant founded by Hong Kong-based British opium
merchants.
Earlier this month, The Independent reported that French police had "intercepted one of the dozens of 'go-fast' cars which transport cannabis at high speed from Spain to Paris. The seizure--banal in itself--unravelled an extraordinary network of drug-trafficking, money-laundering, fraud and tax evasion which sprawled over the invisible barrier which separates Paris from the city's poor, multiracial suburbs."
The bank embroiled in this latest scandal? Why HSBC, of course!'
Earlier this month, The Independent reported that French police had "intercepted one of the dozens of 'go-fast' cars which transport cannabis at high speed from Spain to Paris. The seizure--banal in itself--unravelled an extraordinary network of drug-trafficking, money-laundering, fraud and tax evasion which sprawled over the invisible barrier which separates Paris from the city's poor, multiracial suburbs."
The bank embroiled in this latest scandal? Why HSBC, of course!'
