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| Dr.Estrin@hotmail.com 2005-10-29, 7:33 pm |
| Arbat Bank, where ex World Chess Champion A. Karpov is the Chairman of
the Board of Directors, lost its license for money laundering
The Bank of Russia from 8 September has withdrawn the license for bank
transactions from the Company "Arbat Bank", is in the information
by the Central Bank. It has established numerous facts of the violation
of the legislation to counteract against the money laundering. The Bank
has not been submitting in due course to the Federal Financial
Monitoring Service the information on the transactions, subject to
obligatory supervision, and did not register any data on the
identification their clients-physical persons. There has been absence
of the necessary control to create the cashier documents in the bank,
and there have been other violations of the bank legislation and
regulations of the Bank of Russia, for which the Central Bank has on
several occasions implemented various penalties.
During the current year the Bank has provided his clientele the cash
monies for the amount more than 22 billion rubles (allegedly for the
purchase of the agricultural produce and stock), having at the same
time the currency balance of 475 million rubles.
quote:
>From 8 September in Arbat Bank there is a provisional administration
led by the Central Bank representative V. Kalygin.
Arbat Bank was founded in 1994, the initial capital was 40.4 mln
rubles. There is no public information on the stock-holders. Anatoly
Karpov, ex World Chess Champion, President of the International
Association of the Peace Foundations, and the UNICEF Ambassador in
Russia and Eastern Europe heads the Bank's Board of Directors.
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quote:
> Arbat Bank, where ex World Chess Champion A. Karpov is the Chairman of
> the Board of Directors, lost its license for money laundering
>
According to the data of Europol 50% of Russian banks are in the hands of
mafia. But I`ve heard lately that all of them are ;-)
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| Tyrone Slothrop 2005-10-30, 7:33 pm |
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Jerzy wrote:
quote:
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> According to the data of Europol 50% of Russian banks are in the hands of
> mafia. But I`ve heard lately that all of them are ;-)
Please give a citation for this information.
I know some Russian bank owners and I know some Russian mafiaoso. And
neither are all Russian bank owners mafia nor are all Russian mafiaoso
bank owners. In fact, in my small sample, these don't intersect at
all.
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| > Please give a citation for this information.
What information 50 or 100 % ? Go to the Europol site www.europol.eu.int to
check the first.
quote:
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> I know some Russian bank owners and I know some Russian mafiaoso. And
> neither are all Russian bank owners mafia nor are all Russian mafiaoso
> bank owners. In fact, in my small sample, these don't intersect at
> all.
Please give names and addresses of those mafioso :D
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| Angelo DePalma 2005-10-30, 11:31 pm |
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Any Russian bank which does not pay the required 40% business access fee to
the greasy little guy in the leather jacket who shows up every Monday is
automatically convicted of money laundering.
<Dr.Estrin@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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quote:
> Arbat Bank, where ex World Chess Champion A. Karpov is the Chairman of
> the Board of Directors, lost its license for money laundering
>
> The Bank of Russia from 8 September has withdrawn the license for bank
> transactions from the Company "Arbat Bank", is in the information
> by the Central Bank. It has established numerous facts of the violation
> of the legislation to counteract against the money laundering. The Bank
> has not been submitting in due course to the Federal Financial
> Monitoring Service the information on the transactions, subject to
> obligatory supervision, and did not register any data on the
> identification their clients-physical persons. There has been absence
> of the necessary control to create the cashier documents in the bank,
> and there have been other violations of the bank legislation and
> regulations of the Bank of Russia, for which the Central Bank has on
> several occasions implemented various penalties.
> During the current year the Bank has provided his clientele the cash
> monies for the amount more than 22 billion rubles (allegedly for the
> purchase of the agricultural produce and stock), having at the same
> time the currency balance of 475 million rubles.
> led by the Central Bank representative V. Kalygin.
>
> Arbat Bank was founded in 1994, the initial capital was 40.4 mln
> rubles. There is no public information on the stock-holders. Anatoly
> Karpov, ex World Chess Champion, President of the International
> Association of the Peace Foundations, and the UNICEF Ambassador in
> Russia and Eastern Europe heads the Bank's Board of Directors.
>
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| Tyrone Slothrop 2005-10-30, 11:31 pm |
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Jerzy wrote:
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> What information 50 or 100 % ? Go to the Europol site www.europol.eu.int to
> check the first.
When searching for the keywords mafia and banks, it only gives me this
one page:
http://www.europol.eu.int/index.asp...meassessmentthb
What should I be looking for?
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> Please give names and addresses of those mafioso :D
It will be safer for both of us if I don't.
Addresses? It is safe to say that the most significant Moskovskaya
oblast-based bratva are in Solntsevo, Ostankino, Lubertsy, Dolgoprudny,
Podolsk, Izmailova, and Luchansky. These hubs serve as their "calling
cards".
But of course, there are those that claim the greatest bratva of them
all is nestled within the walls of the Kremlin. Those that say this
dilute the entire meaning of "bratva"...
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quote:
> When searching for the keywords mafia and banks, it only gives me this
> one page:
> http://www.europol.eu.int/index.asp...meassessmentthb
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> What should I be looking for?
Well, the source of my information is the book "Wladimir Putin : Wohin
steuert er Russland" by Boris Reitschuster. A gorgeous book BTW. The author
claims that according to the data of Europol 50% of Russian banks are in the
hands of mafia.
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> It will be safer for both of us if I don't.
I`m not afraid of no mafia. However Yuri Shchekochikhin, who was an official
critic of the mafia, was poisoned by them.
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> Addresses? It is safe to say that the most significant Moskovskaya
> oblast-based bratva are in Solntsevo, Ostankino, Lubertsy, Dolgoprudny,
> Podolsk, Izmailova, and Luchansky. These hubs serve as their "calling
> cards".
>
> But of course, there are those that claim the greatest bratva of them
> all is nestled within the walls of the Kremlin. Those that say this
> dilute the entire meaning of "bratva"...
I think that your interrogation leads you to the right direction : behind
the Red Square and the tomb of Lenin there is Kremlin :D
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| Liam Too 2005-10-31, 7:38 pm |
| Jerzy wrote:
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> I`m not afraid of no mafia.
You haven't heard of vito Corleone and the rest of his Mafia family
then.
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> You haven't heard of vito Corleone and the rest of his Mafia family
> then.
I ain`t afraid of them either. I`ve read the book "Godfather" and my
favourite video game on PC is Mafia of course :D
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| Liam Too 2005-10-31, 7:38 pm |
| Jerzy wrote:
quote:
> I ain`t afraid of them either. I`ve read the book "Godfather" and my
> favourite video game on PC is Mafia of course :D
Aha, you must be one of them then. There is that thing that if you're
not scared of them, you must have joined them. :-)
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| Tyrone Slothrop 2005-10-31, 7:38 pm |
| Liam Too wrote:
quote:
> Jerzy wrote:
>
> You haven't heard of vito Corleone and the rest of his Mafia family
> then.
Unfortunately, the Russian mafia is more ruthless yet. While there are
probably mafias which are worse (Chechen comes to mind), the Russians
rank right up there with the bad boys. Both must be considered to be
much worse than the Sicilian mafia which is almost genteel in its
character, in comparison.
A tale which some of the Czech readers may recall is how the Russian
mob (in particularly, one Moskovskaya oblast-based bratva) branched out
to opened up business in Prague.
In the 70's and 80's many students from the 3rd world were coming to
the Eastern-bloc nations for free schooling. They would fly for free
to the Eastern-bloc host nation, live in dormitories, eat disgusting
food, study a year of Russian and then earn a university degree. This
was subsidized by the communists because it was considered good
marketing for their social/political system and ostensibly to spread
communism around the poorer nations of the world. But like most
college students, after graduation, rather than return to their own
countries, where the future might still be bleak even for a
college-educated person, many decided to try to stay on. But what to
do? How to earn a living? In Prague, students from African countries
ended up running the prostitution rackets by the mid 80's and
maintaining control even through jousing with the local Czech organized
crime rings. But in the early 90's, the Russian bratva (or one
particular group) decided that particular business in Prague was
profitable.
The Sicilians would probably have stopped to negotiate some sort of
sharing agreement. There might still have been bloodshed, but they
would have probably talked with the locals. Not the Russian bratva.
The local citizenry of Prague first noticed something was happening
when these African students started turning up dead in the streets
daily. Blood messes. The papers were printing stories every day. And
then, a few short weeks later. It was over. The Russians controlled
prostitution in Prague. No apparent negotiation. Only a "we want it,
let's take it" mentality.
And if that isn't enough, there is always the tale what happened in
1995 with the Russian pensioners who were being knocked off in order
for one enterprising mafia to claim their apartments and resell them.
One dead retired pensioner equals one $3000 apartment. Someone decided
they could make a mint with that formula.
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> Aha, you must be one of them then. There is that thing that if you're
> not scared of them, you must have joined them. :-)
Nope Lance, you`re wrong. However your idol herr Fischer played in 1992 in a
dubious chessmatch with a dubious sponsorship. Maybe he joined them ? :-)
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