"Man of Honour"

The Magic Game

When the President does it, that means it is not illegal, 'Richard Nixon, former US President....'

French Presidents HQ is searched

A French Investigating magistrate has searched the headquarters of Presidents Jaques Chirac's Gaullist party about an alleged funding scam. Thirty peoples are under investigation in the case. Rake-off of public housing money to help finance the party!

Money Laundering is all about sleight of hand.
It is a magic trick for wealth creation.
It is, perhaps, the closest anyone has ever come to alchemy.

What is money laundering?

With few exceptions, criminals are motivated by one thing-profit. Greed drives the criminal, and the end result is that illegally-gained money must be introduced into the nation's legitimate financial systems. Money laundering involves disguising financial assets so they can be used without detection of the illegal activity that produced them. Through money laundering, the criminal transforms the monetary proceeds derived from criminal activity into funds with an apparently legal source.

This process has devastating social consequences. For one thing, money laundering provides the fuel for drug dealers, terrorists, arms dealers, and other criminals to operate and expand their criminal enterprises. We know that criminals manipulate financial systems Wordwide to further a wide range of illicit activities. Left unchecked, money laundering can erode the integrity of our nation's financial institutions.

FinCEN is a network, a link between the law enforcement, financial and regulatory communities. Because the changing financial world creates vast opportunities for criminals, FinCEN strives to work with its domestic and international partners to maximise the information sharing network and find new ways to prevent and detect financial crime. How big is the problem and why is it important?

The profits of crime that creep into Global' financial system each year are staggering and detrimental by any calculation. Drug trafficking alone generates tens of billions of dollars a year. Many believe that it is simply not possible to pinpoint the amount.

It is clear, however, that the problem is enormous. It is also clear that money laundering extends far beyond hiding narcotics profits. The dimension of the problem increases rapidly when one considers, for example, trade fraud and tax evasion subject to the money laundering statutes, as well as organised crime and arms smuggling. Bank, medical, and insurance fraud-which can also entail significant laundering of funds-add many additional billions of dollars to the criminals' profits.

Notes on German Money Laundering

Follow the money

To fight them, law enforcement has traditionally resorted to arrests, seizures and convictions. The focus has been on the underlying crime, drug trafficking, racketeering, prostitution, weapons trafficking, trade fraud, terrorism and, more recently, the smuggling of radioactive materials. This focus has now changed:

"We follow the money via application research," says the Author, "because we have learned that this is what hurts such criminal organisations the most. But who is more criminel? The one who supplies, or the one who use it knowingly?"

The first legislation aimed at regulating monetary transactions in Europe was passed in 1970 (known as `The Bank Secrecy Act'). It required financial institutions to keep records and to report transactions involving large amounts of currency (the present threshold is 10,000 dollars, about 8,000 ECU).

But money laundering per se was not criminalized until 1986. In 1992, banks were required to file suspicious transaction reports and to establish internal anti-money laundering procedures, called `Know your customer policy'.

Eventually, in 1994, the `Money laundering suppression Act' was passed. It required the federal registration of other types of financial institutions (like money transmitters, check cashiers, remittance corporations, money changers and giro houses), that were unregulated until then. But then? You still need the Prosecuters and in Germany no prosecuter will prosecute a known money launderer, only the supplier, not the user or beneficiary

Bigger catches

"The aim at the legislative level," says the Author, "has been to make the holes in the net smaller so that fewer fishes can get through. FinCEN has adopted a prevention-detection-enforcement approach envisioning a single, seamless, enforcement system that goes from the bank teller, securities broker, or money order agent, through analysis and information sharing, to special agent and prosecutor." The agency makes use of the latest information technologies available, such as artificial intelligence to detect trends and patterns of money laundering.

Other countries have similar organisations: TRACFIN in France, CTIF in Belgium, NCIS in Great Britain, AUSTRAC in Australia and soon there will be a new centre in Poland.

Black hole of wire transfers

"The area of wire transfers has often been the black hole of money trails and is still very arcane to many investigators," adds the Author, "it is not an easy matter to identify one transfer in an ocean of transactions by wire transfers when we keep in mind that each day over 1 trillion of dollars (about 800 billion ECU) pass through the New York Chips System alone.

FinCEN's initiative will make such identification much easier."

EU initiatives- Germany until excluded!

The European Union's fight against money laundering has become harder since the borders between Western and Eastern Europe were opened. The commission's directive 308/91 has eight sections about money laundering, dealing with the bank's duty to identify customers and transactions, professional practices of bank workers and of internal controls for banks.But still between 1989 and 1994 a few hundreds million dollars ha been placed in Merchant Bank in Germany. It is easy to place funds in Germany. Just use a Business Lawyer and he place for you what ever amount available even against Government Bonds as recently in 1995

The directive has been accepted by most of the Community. Ireland has accepted it only in part and Greece will introduce it soon. The directive has a limit for the identification of the bank's customers and their financial activities. All transactions over 15,000 ECU need to be certified. This helps to identify potential criminals and fight the money laundering. This rule can also be applied to non-financial activities. Denmark, Germany, Spain, France, Netherlands and Great Britain also use 'de-facto' the new directive for casino, jewels and art trafficking.( But Germany must not yet have the translation of this agreement!)

Co-ordination problems

Despite good intentions, there are problems of co-ordination between the EU's countries.
Some countries are delaying the introduction of legislation required by the directive.

Another problem concerns the internal laws of the EU countries.

Only Italy, Germany, Belgium, Ireland, Netherlands and Great Britain have national regulations about the money laundering of all criminal activities: drugs, terrorism, weapon traffic, prostitution, smuggling, extortion, organised crime and other illegal activities. However, no one German has been ever sentenced or braught on trial for Money Laundering. Germany as the main engine for a Europol generated and controlled by Germans can not aford to recongnized that Money laundering exist or being commited by the so 'Law obeing German's.

There are also confusion about other international regulations.

The UN convention of Vienna about drugs, for instance, was not completely adopted. Belgium and Ireland have not ratified it whilst Greece, Spain and Luxembourg have adopted it only in part.

The same is true for the European Council's convention of Strasbourg about money laundering. It was ratified only by Great Britain, Netherlands and Italy.

There are also differences about Europol, a sort of European FBI, for fighting criminal organisations. Whilst Germany wants a federal structure France favours a national organisation of Europol.

All these differences make it hard to have full co-operation between countries for fighting laundering. This lack of co-ordination is made worse because the EU has no judicial authority.

Too many transactions

Even in those countries that have many controls there are a lot of problems fighting money laundering.

Italy, for instance, has adopted the whole directive and has also lowered the EU's limit for controls on financial activities from 15,000 ECU to 10,000.

But although Italy has a system of identification of suspected transactions it does not work well. There are so many transactions that it is very hard to identify the illegal activities.

Another difficulty is that the rules do not guarantee confidentiality to the bank worker who informs the police. A modification of Community law on this is being discussed at the European Parliament.

Italy is now experimenting with an important new method for fighting money laundering, called Gianos. It is a computer system that is already used by more than 300 banks which automatically identifies anomalous operations and traces suspect transactions.

The lifeblood of gate (Water or North or the next Bonn-Brussels's gate') drug dealers, fraudsters, smugglers, kidnappers, arms dealers, terrorists, extortionists and tax evaders, myth has it that the term was coined by Al Capone, who, like his arch rival George' Buys' Moran, used a string of co-operated Laundromats scattered around Chicago to disguise his revenue from gambling, prostitution, racketeering and violation of the Prohibition laws.

EUROLAND: French Franc support in Frankfurt?

Professor Karl Haushofer, who ghost-write most of 'Mein Kampf' in Hitler's Prison cell fifty years later named his first secret organisation the 'Virile Society'.
G eld E reicht R echte M eistens A m N eutralsten
G E R M A N
F. orever R. ich & G. rowt,
(FRG)
Federal Republic of Germany
English for (BRD)
B. leibe R. eich & D. eutsch

The virile society is alive and Bonn's Euro, Inc. Articles of Association includes:"
There is a destiny now possible to us - the highest ever set before a nation, to be accepted or refused. We are still unregenerate in race; a race mingled in the best northern blood.

We are rich in an inheritance of Honour, which it should be our daily thirst to increase with splendid avarice.

'Never again' The empathic words echo and re-echo on the 50th. Anniversary.

But what means 'Never again' for Germany, - after the Germans Chancellors second 'black-out' in ex Yugoslavia?
That means, one must assume, that 'never again' should apply only to nouvelles, one's that have no historic roots.

Conveniently for the complacent, there are not to many of those.

"Still, we hear "Never again!"
This words do not command the conduct of the living, but insult the memory of those whose abandonment have scarred a lesson into our souls.

The black-out Chancellor said in India, during a state visit, that:' We will build a Europe, and if required and necessary with 10 or even with 3....

The recent sentences hanged out by German courts against the killers of Sadri Berisha, a Poland citizen and Sahit Elezay for murder against the German Citizen Thomas Wende, 25, Michael Drigilla, 21, Roland Wende, 23, and Frank Neuman as the sentence against the killer of a Vietnamese Citizen are the proof of a virile justice and Government.

A well known Professor of the Academy in Esslingen stated clearly: ' The virile justice and the German Government are more tolerable against killing of 'Non Germans' then stealing a Mercedes from a 'good' German.

It is even more complex as Wende has been 13 times legally sentenced from German courts for violent crimes.

His 'nick-name' Schoenhuber refers to the 'Virile Bavarian Guide'.

Reading the accusation of the prosecutors attorney in the case against Wende, you will find many 'excuses' such as 'group dynamic' prior to the trial.

' Les nation sont plus souvant la conséquences de l' establissement d'une Etat qu 'elles n 'en sont de fondement.

Bref, l'Etat prouve a postori la nation.

German's Kohl 1994:

1996 end unemployment with the single market. (?) Kohl's ex 'consultants M. Stuermer said:
"More Europe, - or more Germany. Taking the money from where?

Why Germans can easy open Bank accounts to 'clean and kind of funds' while others are checked or even denounced.

This facility goes back during Hitler's rules. Collaborators, like Francois Genoud in Switzerland an authentic hard-core Nazi who reconstituted in 1949 Nazi International which was reassembled as a public association.
Dr. Armin Mohler, former Swiss Volunteer in Hitler's Waffen SS, produced his book: ' The Conservative Revolution in Germany' as a doctoral dissertation under pro-Nazi Swiss Philosopher Dr. Karl Barth.

By 1942, Genoud's Lousanne operation had expanded into the Banking word and he facilitated the transfer of million of marks from German to Swiss Banks.
The funds would later underwrite the ODESSA organisation that smuggled countless top Nazi officials out of Germany into Spain, North Africa and the middle East. These Network to this day make up the hard core of the international German Money Laundering organisation. Accounts under Genoud's names and Diethelm Brothers, personally founded under the direction of Hitler's personal secretary M. Bormann are still in use and used by or under supervision of new Anstalten in Liechtenstein, with Fund set-up in co-operation with the Attorneys of I.G. Farben and Schroeders Bank goes back to SS General Karl Wolff and guaranteed the 'safe passage' of million of Jewish confiscated funds. Since 1960, using funds still remaining from the Hitler and Goebbels Trust Genoud set up the Banque Commerciale Arabe a Lousanne.
The corresponding Bank, like InterBank in Lebanon facilite many business with Iran and Iraq, while under international embargo by German's Government front companies.
One long-time Genoud collaborator, Lt. General Otto-Ernst Remer, has emerged as a leading Neo-Nazi advocate of reunification of Germany under Soviet Hegemony.

In April 1969 at a Barcelona meeting of the Neo-Nazi New European Order, founded by Genoud agent Gaston Guy Amaudruz, the Lousanne Banker sponsored a delegation from El-Fatah and from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestina. (PFLP) At that meeting, Genoud arranged for the Palestinians to receive training from several ex-Nazi and 'New German's' including Karl Van De Put and J. N. Schuller.
In September 1969, Genoud was brought in as a special advisor to the legal team three PFLP terrorists who attacked an Israeli EL AL plane in Zurich.

Thousand or millions of accounts of today's Germans are in connection with one or the other and therefore any 'inquiries' from German Prosecutors Attorney's in any case of eventual Money Laundering would be blocked and declared as non possible by any superior, or superiors superiors.

But the Germans Chancellor's dream of a Europe even with 10 or 3 and 'either more Europe or more Germany, are not only words. Corruption does not exist in Germany, but ask any well established Businessman or woman in a CDU Land, if he/she could and how he would place funds, you ears will be turn to red.

An estimation that 20 (!) percent of the Germany economy is based on non legally obtained fund, is not underestimated.

..........and the leaving and never stronger virile society needs the strongest economy and therefore money, money and more money - of any kind and colour.

But,......