: Yet another piece of evidence that what Israel does has no connection
: to Judaism or Jewish values....... A sham idol heresy.
: From:
: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Europe/2000-06/haven230600.shtml
: How unholy business thrives in the Holy
: Land
: By Phil Reeves in Jerusalem
: 23 June 2000
: Money laundering in Israel has reached
: colossal proportions in the last few years,
: fuelled by the rise of Russian
: organised-crime since the collapse of the
: Soviet Union, liberal banking laws and
: bank secrecy policies.
: Billions of illegally acquired dollars from
: Russia and the former Soviet republics,
: South America, Africa and Europe have
: passed through Israel in the last few years,
: securing its status as one of the world's
: leading money laundries.
: Israel's police believe Russian gangsters
: are taking advantage of the money-transfer
: laws aimed at attracting Jewish people to
: the country, to deposit profits and launder
: funds. Their operations include narcotics
: and prostitution rackets, bribes and
: cream-offs from government funds and
: loans. But they also involve the winnings
: from a massive asset-stripping exercise
: that began under the former president
: Mikhail Gorbachev and has been underway
: since, turning Russia into a kleptocracy in
: which corruption runs from the top to the
: bottom of the society. They are helped by
: the 1 million former Soviet citizens living
: in Israel who have arrived since 1991.
: Earlier this year a Chechen was arrested
: for reportedly trying to open an Israeli
: account with $50m (£33m) in Venezuelan
: cheques. Last summer an Israeli mobster
: was convicted in Florida of running a
: money-laundering business for a
: Colombian cartel, prompting worries in
: Israel about recycled cocaine money. The
: businessman Gregory Lerner notoriously
: admitted defrauding Russian banks of
: $48m (£32m), which he used to try to open
: a bank in Israel. He was fined $5m
: (£3.3m), not for bringing in stolen money
: but for local bribery and fraud.
: Banking or spending the profits of illicit
: offshore enterprises has not been illegal in
: Israel, although moves are afoot to change
: this. For this reason, Israel has been
: considered a launderer's paradise.
: Established as a safe-haven for the Jews,
: the country has not asked many questions
: about their riches. Many had fled nations
: that prohibited them from taking money
: abroad. The New York Times said about
: $2.5bn (£1.7m) was brought in from the
: former Soviet Union in the Nineties, almost
: no questions asked.
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