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All Is Clouded by Desire - Global Banking, Money Laundering, and International Organized Crime (Hardcover)
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All Is Clouded by Desire - Global Banking, Money Laundering, and International Organized Crime (Hardcover)
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Before Enron, before Arthur Anderson, and before Worldcom, there
was the Bank of New York money laundering scandal, which hit
headlines in 1999. Promising to be one of the most important books
on international organized crime, money laundering, and the
complicity between legitimate and illegitimate businesses in both
the United States and the former Soviet Union, among other places,
during the last decade of the 20th century, All Is Clouded by
Desire examines the criminal dealings the led to the revelation
that the Bank of New York's Eastern European Division laundered $6
billion for Russian organized criminals and other shady
organizations and individuals. In a series of intrigues that
involved crooked Geneva banker Bruce Rappaport and high-level
members of the Bank of New York, criminal Russian organizations
were able to thrive and prosper during a time when the rest of the
former Soviet Union crumbled amidst growing corruption and a
declining economy. Tracing the financial shenanigans back many
years, Block and Weaver illustrate how the underworld of high
finance, money laundering, mafia groups, CIA operatives, and
legitimate banking institutions can clean dirty money and operate
criminal enterprises that span the globe. Block and Weaver
carefully assemble a vivid examination of the world of "hot money"
in the arena of international banking and the roles played by
Intelligence, the politically connected, and the criminally
inclined. Focusing on the intensely private Genava banker Bruce
Rappaport and the Bank of New York, the authors show how the two
worked together with dodgy Russian banks to move and launder
billions through channels that include off-shore banks,
shadyjoint-ventures, and outright criminal organizations. Relying
on primary sources from the logs of the institutions involved,
interviews with British Intelligence operatives and former CIA
officers, secret discussions with private detectives handling the
infamous Marc Rich tax case, and material collected by two private
detective agencies in London and New York, the book exposes the
various machinations that were instrumental in completing the
financial schemes that would ultimately cause the downfall of two
top Bank of New York executives.
General
Imprint: |
Praeger Publishers Inc
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
July 2004 |
First published: |
July 2004 |
Authors: |
Alan A. Block
• Constance A. Weaver
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Dimensions: |
235 x 156 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-275-98330-7 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
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LSN: |
0-275-98330-7 |
Barcode: |
9780275983307 |
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