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Are the EU. claims against the US territories true or not.

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EU report on money-laundering includes US Territories

Postby Rio Cana » Fri Feb 15, 2019 2:41 pm

They were talking about this the other day on the radio. It seems the EU. has published its latest list on nations in which the act of laundering money is present. The nations in the list are the usual nations we expect to be on that list. What was not expected is that the EU. list included four US territories (Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa and the US Virgin Islands). The US treasury response was not to take the EU. serious on this. Some say this is the latest tug of war between the US and EU. and that the EU. is just using the excuse of there being money laundering in the US territories to get back at the US.

So what do you think. I think while the money laundering could be true that the EU. brought it up to get back at the US.

Read this - https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/02/15/eu ... x-evasion/
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Postby The Archregimancy » Fri Feb 15, 2019 2:49 pm

There's one minor problem with the poll. I haven't read the report, but it's by no means impossible that it's simultaneously factual and political.
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Postby Iwassoclose » Fri Feb 15, 2019 2:49 pm

US is the largest tax haven in the world, why is anyone surprised
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Postby Rio Cana » Fri Feb 15, 2019 3:49 pm

The Archregimancy wrote:There's one minor problem with the poll. I haven't read the report, but it's by no means impossible that it's simultaneously factual and political.


If true, they could have not mentioned it since it does involve a militarily and economic powerhouse US. The US and other nations at times do things which other nations including allies prefer not to comment in order not to get on there bad side. But they did this time around which could make it political.
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Postby Aclion » Fri Feb 15, 2019 3:58 pm

If there is not money laundering in every single nation on earth I will eat my foot.
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Postby Dresderstan » Fri Feb 15, 2019 4:13 pm

Aclion wrote:If there is not money laundering in every single nation on earth I will eat my foot.

No one is money laundering in North Korea.
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Postby Aclion » Fri Feb 15, 2019 4:15 pm

Dresderstan wrote:
Aclion wrote:If there is not money laundering in every single nation on earth I will eat my foot.

No one is money laundering in North Korea.

Hahahahahahahahaha

North Korea is money laundering in North Korea
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Postby Ethel mermania » Fri Feb 15, 2019 4:24 pm

wellll.... i would argue the BVI and a couple carribean countries should be there as well.......


http://vifreepress.com/2016/04/panama-p ... en-always/

http://bankersacademy.com/resources/fre ... uerto-rico


http://vifreepress.com/2019/02/fbi-mone ... n-islands/
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Postby Olthar » Fri Feb 15, 2019 4:57 pm

Dresderstan wrote:
Aclion wrote:If there is not money laundering in every single nation on earth I will eat my foot.

No one is money laundering in North Korea.

That's because no one has money in North Korea.
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Postby Trumptonium1 » Fri Feb 15, 2019 5:25 pm

Well the EU money laundering list also includes 2 EU countries (Latvia, Ireland) and both UK Channel Islands..
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Postby The South Falls » Fri Feb 15, 2019 5:28 pm

Caribbean countries are noted sites for money laundering, because of their lack of taxes and oversight. This I can believe.
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Postby Valrifell » Fri Feb 15, 2019 5:40 pm

Dresderstan wrote:
Aclion wrote:If there is not money laundering in every single nation on earth I will eat my foot.

No one is money laundering in North Korea.


Laundering money is unironically thought to be one of the revenue streams of the North Korean government.
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Postby The Galactic Liberal Democracy » Fri Feb 15, 2019 6:14 pm

Valrifell wrote:Laundering money is unironically thought to be one of the revenue streams of the North Korean government.

It would make sense. North Korea has tons of illegal business and the government doesn’t seem to be stopping it. If you can think of a problem that doesn’t happen everyday, it probably is in North Korea.
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Postby Costa Fierro » Fri Feb 15, 2019 7:58 pm

Interesting list. Surprised to see Samoa there but not infamous European hotspots like Andorra, Monaco, etc.
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Postby Des-Bal » Fri Feb 15, 2019 8:45 pm

Dresderstan wrote:No one is money laundering in North Korea.


I'm pretty sure there's an international restaurant chain run by the North Korean government and I would be shocked to my very core if it's not cleaning money.
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Postby The Galactic Liberal Democracy » Sun Feb 17, 2019 9:16 am

Aclion wrote:If there is not money laundering in every single nation on earth I will eat my foot.

The Vatican is probably free of it. Places like Iceland are probably good too because there isn’t much stuff there anyway and it’s pretty developed.
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Postby Ethel mermania » Sun Feb 17, 2019 9:23 am

The Galactic Liberal Democracy wrote:
Aclion wrote:If there is not money laundering in every single nation on earth I will eat my foot.

The Vatican is probably free of it. Places like Iceland are probably good too because there isn’t much stuff there anyway and it’s pretty developed.

Then again, maybe not. The Vatican is notorious for banking scandal, and to be honest, so is Iceland

https://grapevine.is/news/2018/04/10/ic ... aundering/

The EU list is quite short in terms of nations that belong on it. Including EU nations.
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Postby VoVoDoCo » Sun Feb 17, 2019 9:34 am

A surprise? Lmao

I figured if there was a list money laundering countries that they would have already been on it. My inductive skills have officially outpaced the eu's investigative ones LOL
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Postby Esternial » Sun Feb 17, 2019 10:05 am

Good news for me, maybe more banks will start subscribing to our financial crime product.
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Postby Ethel mermania » Sun Feb 17, 2019 10:12 am

Esternial wrote:Good news for me, maybe more banks will start subscribing to our financial crime product.

Because alpaca's do it better.
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Postby The Galactic Liberal Democracy » Sun Feb 17, 2019 10:20 am

Ethel mermania wrote:Then again, maybe not. The Vatican is notorious for banking scandal, and to be honest, so is Iceland

https://grapevine.is/news/2018/04/10/ic ... aundering/

The EU list is quite short in terms of nations that belong on it. Including EU nations.

Let’s try to guess a country without it. What about Myanmar?
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Ethel mermania wrote:
Esternial wrote:Good news for me, maybe more banks will start subscribing to our financial crime product.

Because alpaca's do it better.

We've got it all: AML, KYC, PDQ all the shits.

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Postby Ethel mermania » Sun Feb 17, 2019 10:34 am

Esternial wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:Because alpaca's do it better.

We've got it all: AML, KYC, PDQ all the shits.

Acronyms for days.

If I knew what any of those meant, I would report you to moderation.
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Postby Risottia » Sun Feb 17, 2019 10:36 am

The South Falls wrote:Caribbean countries are noted sites for money laundering, because of their lack of taxes and oversight. This I can believe.

Time to send in the Foreign Legion.
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