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#MoneyLaundering

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People (1)

  • Robert Mazur United States Customs special agent who, as 'Robert Musella,' was the principal undercover operative of Operation C-Chase, the 1986-88 sting that led to BCCI's 1990 Tampa conviction.

Organizations (5)

  • Capcom London and Chicago commodities futures firm of 1984 to 1988, created by BCCI's treasury chief Ziauddin Akbar and owned by BCCI's Saudi shareholders, through which BCCI took trading losses and laundered money, including Noriega's.
  • Deutsche Bank German bank that handled Jeffrey Epstein's accounts from 2013 to 2018 after JPMorgan exited him, processed payments to women and alleged co-conspirators, and paid 225 million dollars in penalties and settlements.
  • Financial Crimes Enforcement Network The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is a bureau of the United States Department of the Treasury that collects and analyzes information about financial transactions to combat domestic and international money laundering, terrorist financing, and...
  • JPMorgan Chase Largest U.S. bank, which kept Jeffrey Epstein as a client from 1998 to 2013 over compliance objections, flagged most of his suspicious transactions only after his 2019 arrest, and paid 365 million dollars in settlements.
  • Nugan Hand Bank Australian merchant bank (1973-1980) that functioned as what investigators described as a CIA financial network, with branches in thirteen countries staffed by American military and intelligence veterans, collapsing after Frank Nugan was found shot dead in January 1980 and Michael Hand disappeared.

Events (1)

  • Operation C-Chase United States Customs undercover money laundering operation of 1986 to 1988, run by agent Robert Mazur as 'Robert Musella,' that ended in the arrest of BCCI officers and the bank's 1990 Tampa conviction.

Places (2)

  • Geneva Swiss banking city, seat of BCCI's secretly held affiliate Banque de Commerce et de Placements and of the Gokal brothers' Gulf Group, whose BCCI loans led to a fourteen-year sentence for Abbas Gokal.
  • Tampa, Florida Gulf coast city in Florida where the 1988 Operation C-Chase indictment of BCCI was brought, and whose federal prosecutors the Senate found had missed the bank's wider crimes.