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Originally Posted by sperbonzo
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My point is that you are lambasting the US government for only fining this bank, and that they are letting them off easy, when meanwhile the UK and all the other countries where this bank is located have done absolutely nothing at all. In fact they don't even have banking reporting regulations that control this behavior. Since money laundering is such a big deal for you, why aren't you asking where the UK government is? Or Any other country? Why aren't THEY fining HSBC? Shouldn't you be happy that the US government is at least fining them, when all other governments are doing nothing at all?
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Because I'm not a UK citizen.. Why are you going overboard with other countries not doing something as an excuse for the US that did, going lax on the criminal prosecution?
It's like saying it's the UK's fault for illegal immigration into the US and that the UK should have stricter laws on illegal immigration inside the US.
The only involvement the UK has in this matter is the bank was British owned. That has little to nothing to do with anything as long as they operate offices inside the US then they must abide by US laws while doing dealings via their US offices. It matters little who owns them they still have to follow US laws while operating in this country.
If they sent their drug laundered money directly to the UK then this probably wouldn't of been a problem as nothing the US could do about it. However they didn't, they tried to launder the money inside the US.
Get the picture yet?
