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citing sources familiar with the investigation, said that Credit Suisse, Union Bank of Switzerland,
Dresdner Bank, Westdeutsche Landesbank and Banque Internacionale of Luxembourg are being
scrutinized for their role in the matter.)” [Bank of New York probe exposes ties between Western
financiers and Russian Mafia, James Brookfield, 27 August 1999, wsws.org]
Deutsch Landesbank, however was connected to a second, later investigation into the
holdings of Boris Berezovsky and Roman Abramovich. In 2001, both of these
investigations were ongoing, and centered in the World Trade Center.
“According to recent media reports, Russian companies allegedly controlled by Boris Berezovsky and
Roman Abramovich were responsible for laundering up to $7.2 billion in Russian "funny money"
mostly through German banks over the past four years. It is not yet clear whether the scheme involved
"just" tax evasion or more serious criminally related money-laundering activity. This scandal, if
confirmed, involves the venerable Westdeutsche Landesbank, known as WestLB, and a slew of other
German financial institutions. Outwardly, this case is reminiscent of other money-laundering schemes
such as those involving the Bank of New York and Citigroup. All of them involve moving large sums
of money between Caribbean offshore locations such as the British Virgin Islands or even more exotic
places like Nauru and Western Samoa….. The investigation may soon be handed over to the FBI
however…. Several venerable banks, including the Bank of New York and Republic Bank of New
York, were at the center of a much larger scandal in the fall of 1999, in which transactions in excess of
$6 billion were uncovered. The transfer originated in Russia and involved some 10,000 transactions
since October 1998. The federal investigation - involving the FBI, the New York Federal Reserve
Board, the New York Banking Commission and the British law enforcement and national security
agencies - is still going on.” [Coming Clean, Ariel Cohen, Moscow Times, January 23, 2001]
This report emphasizes that the German /Suisse banks referenced in the investigation
include those very banks reported to be at the heart of the need to cover up investigations
at the World Trade Center: Credit Suisse, Union Bank of Switzerland, Deutsch Bank,
Dresdner Bank, and now, including Westdeutsche Landesbank.
8.6 The Yeltsin Family and the Investigations in the World Trade
Center
There were at least seven active investigations into the Yeltsin family when the World
Trade Center – home of the U.S. major financial investigative organizations – went
down. In all probability, there might have been up to fifteen or twenty investigations
opened, and most of them would never see the light of day. All of these investigations
are tied to accounts that would ultimately link back to the Bush family financing.
1. In 1998, Loutchansky, Marc Rich and Berezovsky (Berezovskii) – all associates of
the Yeltsin family - were being investigated in conjunction with the Bank of New
York money-laundering scandal that the Bush administration, (through Ashcroft) first
tried to bury as insignificant – only to have it put back on the front page of the press
by Swiss investigators, and then Russian investigators. (To put the Yeltsin “Family”
in context, it should be noted that the crime organization named after him ousted him
shortly after he lost value as anything other than a figurehead.)
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