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Too Big to Jail - HSBC and the Banking Scandal of the Century (Paperback)
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Too Big to Jail - HSBC and the Banking Scandal of the Century (Paperback)
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‘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?
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