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(回答先: イスラエルの銀行で大規模な資金洗浄〔BBC、Haaretz〕 投稿者 ネオファイト 日時 2005 年 3 月 07 日 23:27:42)
あまり注意を払っていないうちに捜査が終わってしまったようです。BBCはリンクのみにしておきます。
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4327831.stm
Last Updated: Monday, 7 March, 2005, 22:48 GMT
Israeli bank investigation widens
Israeli police have widened their inquiry into suspected money-laundering at Israel's biggest commercial bank to include the company's clients.
Russian-Jewish media mogul Vladimir Gusinsky has been questioned by Israeli police as part of a probe into money laundering allegations.
The deputy to the CEO and the man in charge of international private banking at Bank Hapoalim, Be'eri Ben Ze'ev, was questioned yesterday by the Fraud Squad.
Ze'ev is a suspect in the developing case of money laundering, the first senior bank official to be questioned but certainly not the last.
The latest development in the case is the suspicion that a senior government official in a country of the former Soviet Union managed accounts in the Hayarkon Street branch and laundered funds through it.
Police investigators suspect that Ben Ze'ev was aware of the money laundering that had been ongoing at branch 535 on Hayarkon Street in Tel Aviv, and did nothing to stop it.
Officers investigating the case believe it is highly improbable that money laundering on such a scale and for such a long time could have gone on without senior bank officials being aware of it.
The first stage of the investigation into money laundering at the Bank Hapoalim branch on Hayarkon Street in Tel Aviv will end in about a week, when police transfer material collected in the investigation of several bank employees and a group of account holders at the branch to the State Prosecutor's Office in order to issue indictments against them.
Officials involved in the investigation said over the weekend that enough evidence has been collected to try some of the employees and a number of account holders suspected of having been front men for laundering money on behalf of unnamed persons.
Both the bank staffers and account holders will apparently be tried based on clause 3(b) of the Money Laundering Prohibition Law, which concerns a problematic handling of accounts, not a problematic source of money.
The fact that the authorities plan to try suspects based on this clause indicates that police have not managed, nor apparently tried, to prove the money had a criminal origin, but rather stuck to collecting evidence of illegal movements in the accounts sufficient for indicating laundering activity.
One reason for this is that investigators had trouble locating the original owners of the funds to prove it was illicit money. A source said the account holders refused to name the original owners suspected of enlisting their laundering services.
There has been no decision regarding senior bank officials and the senior businesspeople whose names have been mentioned as holding accounts in the bank branch and the investigation into their possible involvement continues.
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