Finance mondiale : l’irrésistible pouvoir de l’argent du crime – Documentaire Monde – SHK

Finance mondiale : l’irrésistible pouvoir de l’argent du crime – Documentaire Monde – SHK

Duisburg, Germany, August 15, 2007. So many mafia members are lying on the asphalt, all from Calabria, Italy. This is not cinema, this is not Hollywood, this is not The Godfather, Goodfellas or American Gangster. This is reality. The August 15 massacre tore away the veil
of shadow that usually surrounds organized crime and immediately fell back into oblivion. And yet, another reading of this carnage is possible. Organized crime is the dark side of globalization. Yes.
Beneath the asphalt of Duisburg, another story is emerging, much more sprawling and worrying, that of the mafia gangrene through economics, globalization, globalization has given a
global financial dimension to the mafias. The mafias’
wealth is significant today for the stability
of economic and financial markets. Yes.
So we are talking about a threat to humanity, that of organized crime, an economic power so great that the question arises: where will this lead us? Five years after the bloodshed in Duisburg, I set out to trace this criminal globalization, the one we don’t see, the one we don’t talk about, the one with the dirty money that is colonizing the world. Let’s head to Italy, the kingdom of the mafia, which remains the most successful example of
the infiltration of crime into the economy. The first stop is the port of Joya Toro, in the south of the country, in Calabria, where the murderers
and victims of Duisburg were born. Founded almost 20 years ago, Joya Toro is today the leading
container port in the Mediterranean. The crisis has not spared it, but it still welcomes around 3,000 ships per year and 3 million containers. No wonder the mafia swooped down
on such a source of business. Agios Yata Euros, It is the shadow
of the Granja that hangs over the docks. The place is the place. Guetta has a parasitic nature and
needs an organism to root herself in and
exploit her environment. A port is a gateway to the world. The free movement of goods is
one of the keys to the liberal economy and Giulietta Euro is therefore a showcase, a strategic location that a criminal organization can use for all its
drug, cigarette and arms trafficking. In Giulietta Oro, it is even said that the drug state levies a tax on each
container unloaded each year. Italian authorities seize millions of counterfeit items, tens of tons of contraband. In the second half of 2011 alone, more than a ton of cocaine. So common that they wear.
Of course. Joya Toro’s pork is an epicenter of drug trafficking. The most recent seizures have demonstrated this again. Judge Di Palma will not tell us much more about
the oratorical precautions which can perhaps be explained by the omnipresence
of the port managers around us. That day. In any case, not everyone is
so moderate in their diagnosis. Calabrian Francesco Fargeon headed the
anti-mafia parliamentary commission between 2006 and 2008. He was one of those who alerted
the world to the power of the Drang eta, but also to the economic power
of all the Italian mafias. I must be told the truth. Let us not be afraid to tell the truth. Most of the activities of the port of Joya Toro are still
managed by Dangote. This is a real problem because the presence of state drugs in the port of Joya Toro is not the presence of mafia members
with revolvers and rifles. For the puppets. And the presence of insecurity is. The presence of own business companies
that are directly linked to the Pyromaniac, Peaches and Bellocchio families. Peaches and Bellocchio. These names are those of some
of the 145 clans that make up the Drang eta. Here we can see their boss being filmed
without their knowledge by the carabinieri. Rare, stolen images of a
world that cultivates discretion. It’s spring. The Italian justice system has identified
nearly 5,000 members of Teranga in Calabria. This is without counting all the others, those hundreds of accomplices who work in
legal companies and thanks to whom the Calabrian mafia does its business in Gioia Toro
by recruiting workers, corrupting unions, and blocking calls for tenders. This is how a mafia marks its territory. They are Mafioso. The mafia blacksmith does not do business
in Paris, Milan, Duisburg or Toronto. That if he is the boss of a territory in. Calabria Territorio in Calabria. The territorial dimension
and the global dimension go hand in hand. There is no mafia in mafia territory. The territory is a family. A family is blood. And blood is silence. But a global mafia like the Drang
State also represents modernity, territorial control
and financial networks. The Shepherd and the Banker
Joya Toro and the World. This is how a mafia establishes its power
and sets out to conquer the planet. This is what Duisburg also tells us. This settling of scores between
Calabrian clans reveals to stunned Germans that their country has become a
bridgehead for Italian mafias in Europe. As a nod to the legend. The August 15th massacre
took place in front of a pizzeria. And it’s not just a cliché. Guetta is said to control
more than 300 of them in Germany. It is also by selling Margaritas
and Reginas that the Italian mafias weave an invisible web
across the entire Old Continent. The mapping established by the
transalpine authorities gives food for thought. And we’re
only talking about the Italian mafias here. And the others? So what are these
mafia entities that are colonizing the planet? To decipher this criminal atlas? I went to see two experts, authors of reference works
on the geopolitics of organized crime. The term mafia should only be used to refer to a very small
and very specific number of criminal entities. These are higher-level criminal entities, those who form the aristocracy of crime. So what is a mafia since we cannot give this description
to all criminal organizations? These are criminal entities that are
basically secret societies. A criminal should not be confused with a mafia member. A criminal is Francis the Belgian. He is a gang leader. He leads a gang. He commits crimes that are essentially the same as those that
mafia members will commit. But the criminal society he founded and created has no permanence. She was created with him and she disappears with him. Let this leader die or be
sent to prison for a long time. And the group around him breaks up, reassembles around another individual. So where are these higher-level criminal organizations that
meet the definition of a mafia? Experts identify nine Cosa Nostra in Sicily, drugs in Calabria, Sacra Corona Unita in Puglia, and the Camorra in Campania. In the Balkans, we find the Albano mafia and then the Turkish mafia. In Asia, the Chinese triads on the continent and on the island of Taiwan, the Japanese mafia, the famous yakuza and finally in North America, the Italian-American mafia. To this list of more recent criminal entities we can add
the mafias of the former Soviet empire,
the Latin American cartels in Colombia and Mexico, and
organized crime in Nigeria. They are just as dangerous, but have neither the sense of silence nor the territorial anchorage of the historical mafias. What is happening in Russia and what is happening on the Côte d’Azur is Beaujolais Nouveau. And the Corleone family is from Château Latour 1947. You can see the difference right away. These first- and second-tier criminal entities have never
been so rich and so powerful. Their turnover places them in the position of rivals of multinationals
and even of certain States. For example, in Italy, the combined turnover of the four Italian mafias is estimated at around 130 to 100
billion euros per year, which is probably 8 to 10%
of the gross domestic product. At the global level,
we know the sources of this wealth. First, drug trafficking
worth $300 to $500 billion. Then there is the counterfeiting and contraband market. Technology, drugs, cigarettes. Then there is human trafficking, prostitution, illegal immigration, and finally everything else: waste trafficking, energy, protected species. In total, 600 to 700 billion in money.
Black. Criminal. A colossal fortune. We don’t have any details because, unfortunately, the bandits don’t send us duplicates of their invoices because they don’t have any. But one thing is certain, nothing makes you more money
faster than drugs. Eleven kilos of cocaine. And a kilo of cocaine in Colombia
costs farmers around €1,200. And again, it’s not
cocaine, but coke. When that kilo of coca falls into the hands of a Colombian drug trafficker, its price has already increased tenfold. It is now worth €15,000. The drug trafficker resells this kilo to intermediaries and it finally ends up
in the hands of the Guetta drug dealer. It is then worth twice as much as €30,000. There it is processed and cut. A kilo of cocaine yields
four kilos of cocaine. They are sold in the markets of Paris, Milan, Zurich or New York
for a unit price of €50,000. €50,000 x four equals €200,000. It’s about training. As someone who has a Marxist background, I do not know of any commodity in the world
capable of generating, as Marx said, an added value that goes from €1,200 to €2,100,000. The business model is staggering and unbeatable. He sits the mafias on mountains of black money. But this is only the tip of the iceberg. It is this strike force that will allow them to develop beyond
the crime itself and to infiltrate society in a more insidious and even more lasting manner. The introduction of considerable financial mass into the legal economy has
in fact created increasingly large and stronger common areas between criminal markets and legal markets, economic and financial markets, and we are seeing the development of sorts of grey areas in the global economy which are neither entirely legal nor entirely illegal. Corruption, cronyism. Organized crime is taking control
of entire sections of the economy. The criminal world, which has no
particular managerial talent, still has something it
knows how to do very well. He knows how to make people obey. To do this, he has two means
at his disposal: corruption. We pay people 100 times more than in normal society and so they
do things for free. And then something
extraordinarily effective and virtually impossible to penalize, which is called bullying. Bullying is a step below being shot in the head, it’s who knows where your kids go to school. And so people obey because they are afraid. Intimidation, corruption. Method is king when it comes to establishing
power and making money. And it’s a surefire recipe for making lots and lots of money. This is public procurement hacking. Here again, Italy has been exemplary since Joya Toro. No need to go far, just join the now famous A3 motorway between Reggio Calabria and Salerno. Modernization work began 20 years ago. You can map highway sections. You realize that the construction companies that were
awarded the construction of this north-south highway are all
under the influence of a criminal clan. The criminal clans of both
the Camorra and the GTA were spread out tens of kilometers by tens of kilometers. The construction of the highway. A highway that looks like a departmental road. The speed limit is 70 kilometers per
hour on many sections. Organized crime found itself with a golden goose. The opportunity for a short guide to mafia methods. Following a rigged tender. Machin is getting a phenomenal amount of money to lay ten centimetres of asphalt, then restore and make sure the motorway is spotless. You only put two. Afterwards, the auditor, who was told that they knew where his children went to school
and was shown a photo of the youngest, said: “Wonderful, absolutely fantastic.” You receive the balance. This represents hundreds of millions of euros each time. And the thing is all the more wonderful because, as there hasn’t been ten cm of bitumen since May 2, the motorway is deteriorating twice as fast and bingo! Next time, instead of starting again ten years later, well, we have to start again three years later. In the meantime, another company and research center has been recreated. To run this type of business, you
obviously need to know the elected officials and the elites. This is where we enter the grey areas of mafia contamination, when the criminal is no longer on the fringes but at the heart of society, bridging the gap between the legal and the illegal. The first consequence is that the economy is distorted and perverted. A reality that we know well on the Côte d’Azur. I have a very specific memory. A few years ago, a business leader was
placed in pre-trial detention for fairly widespread corrupt practices. It was construction and the
designated administrator had received instructions. Of course, never again. He followed us and six months later the company was put into liquidation. That’s what’s fascinating, to think that without crime, sometimes crime in the broadest sense, the company loses markets, ceases to exist. Is it crime that has become one of the main drivers of the economy? If that’s it. So this organized crime is not only devious , it is pernicious and in the long run, it will take us over. This mafia gangrene that will sweep us away is already an old story in Naples, a city undermined for 20 years by the garbage crisis. The Neapolitan mafia, the Camorra, is found at all stages of the waste trafficking. A perfect example of the convergence of crime, crooked businessmen and corrupt politicians. Familiar issues for the new mayor of Naples, Luigi Di Magistri, a former anti-corruption magistrate in Calabria. For the bonus in Corsica. My first action was to fight
against the infiltration of the Camorra into public administration and public policy. Administration. First, when I took. My duties as mayor. The streets of Naples were
covered with 2,500 tons of waste. For six months now, we can say that there has been no more rubbish on the streets of Naples. So difficult to purify. On the other hand. The situation remains serious in the rest of the province. He has it going for him. Organized underdevelopment. This is the other effect of mafia infiltration. Hillary Action campaigns against this dirty money that devastates the environment and
ruins the lives of the people in her city. First, at Juliano, we were Juliano. Before it was the countryside. In the countryside. We produced peaches.
And when? Then again.
You see these fields, even today they produce peaches sold in European markets. In fact, this area is called the land of fires. Cooking specials. If you walk around the area around six or seven in the evening, you can see at least eight or nine pyres here and there. Every day. It’s day. The lands of Campania are saturated
with illegal dumps for the Camorra. Garbage is worth up to $500,000 a day. And that’s not all. Once burned, the waste must undergo a different, even more expensive reprocessing cycle, carried out by private companies that are complicit with the Camorra or managed directly by them. Regarding a beer of shame. This is the road of shame. Like you. Can you see, there are all kinds of industrial waste. In industry. It’s a real organization. The textile industry dumps its products, these residues of all kinds in
the chemical industry dumped, solvents. Nothing serious. This is a really serious situation.
For. Unscrupulous entrepreneurs from the north of the country have taken advantage of the vast territories
in the south thanks to the development of mafias. To hide and bury
extremely hazardous waste. This explains why in Campania, the population suffers from rates of cancer, leukemia and various diseases which can be explained by the fact
that waste and garbage are collected and then reprocessed in a completely abnormal manner when this Italian waste is not
simply then resold abroad and dumped in third world countries
which have even fewer regulations and controls in terms of treatment. We see that organized crime has gone up a notch. Its logic of control over the
legal economy now transcends borders. But you don’t need to go to the third world to see that. In the spring of 2011, journalists from France Trois
produced an edifying report on the largest open-air landfill in Romania, in Galina, near Bucharest. Landfills like these are becoming
Europe’s garbage dumps, even though any import of waste is normally prohibited. The Romanian owner of the place leads the tour and introduces the journalist to his partner, an Italian businessman. Why did an Italian invest in Romania? Get involved.
Invested. In Romania in ecology. Ecological? Do you recycle
Italian waste here in Romania? Absolutely not.
We don’t here. Works only for.
Romania. Not for Italy.
Italy has its. Problems and he stays there.
We have none. Link. Waste is a very,
very interesting market. It is quite interesting. All markets are interesting. Every case has its own interest. Really. So we’re going to see how
waste is treated here. It is interesting to know that according to Italian investigative journalists, the partner in question, named Sergio Pieri, is not a man above suspicion. Along with his brothers, he is said to be a former associate of Vito Xiong, a railway worker. Former mayor of Palermo, pictured here in the 1970s, Vito Sean Cimino, the first Italian politician convicted for his proven links to Cosa Nostra. And we can ask ourselves even more questions when we decipher the rest of the report. The landfill director explains
that the objective at Glénat is also to produce electricity from the waste. We’ll probably
need your money for that, from Europe. Money,
commission, Commission, Europe. How many million euros is this project worth? More than 10 million. From this we can conclude that the
Galina landfill is just a front for trafficking waste and, in the process,
pocketing subsidies from Brussels. Well, we can’t say for sure, of course, but still. Is this not a good illustration of the international expansion of mafias? Yes, if mafia he. We must think of mafias as multinationals; they have their headquarters in a certain place and operate everywhere. They ally with some here and oppose others. There, police and legal proceedings
remain primarily territorialized. National, where European crime
is by nature transnational. We can nevertheless be surprised by the continuation of a
European blindness syndrome. In recent years, we have seen the integration
into the European Union of states that were deeply criminalized. Even before demanding that these states become states governed by the rule of law, that is to say that they have police, justice and modern codes. They were brought into Europe overnight. Is this reasonable? It was at the end of the 1980s, a pivotal moment, that
criminal organizations changed their nature. They understood, as soon as the Berlin Wall fell, that the new markets in the East
offered them fantastic opportunities. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the expansion of Europe to include Eastern Europe, the anti-mafia leadership in Italy recorded a telephone conversation. Between. A mafia boss who was in Italy
and one of his bankers in Germany. Their dialogue is edifying. The boss tells the bankers to go, buy, buy, buy! But the banker in Germany
asks: What am I buying? Everything, absolutely everything, replies the boss. Hotels, restaurants, grounds, everything you can find. And that’s what happened. Another sound element.
Opinion. Today, mafias
are full of money. The problem is not
making more money. But it is to reinvest it
by laundering it. Villa and castle. Luxury hotel. Securities. Bank accounts. The scale of the wealth seized each year by the Italian justice system
is staggering. In 2010, more than 9 billion euros, in 2011, almost 5 billion. This gives an idea of ​​the
financial power of organized crime. And we’re only talking about Italy here. We can clearly see here that money laundering is at the heart
of mafia infiltration. On the Via Veneto in Rome,
the Café de Paris still looks great. Portraits of Mastroianni
and Fellini still decorate its walls. But today, it is above all the ghost of a drag boss,
Guetta, who haunts the place. After months of investigation,
the Italian justice system discovered that this cult place of la dolce vita was in fact
the property of a Calabrian clan leader. Vincente Alvaro. Thought that the Café de Paris and. The Café de Paris was
in the name of a hairdresser. A hairdresser of one.
Village on the Consolaient hill. TOS had become.
Owners of this bar. Legendary in the center of Rome. A coffee worth millions. The hairdresser, of course, was
only the front man for Vincente Alvaro. However, the mafia boss was
listed on the personnel records. But as a kitchen assistant, Alvaro had organized his business
through multiple shell companies run by important straw men
. This proves how these mafias have modernized themselves as well as the networks
they maintain. Do you think that half- literate shepherds from rural villages,
from the tea promotion, could have bought the Café de Paris without having connections with
notaries, accountants, bank directors
or people connected to the… Politics of objects and politics. It’s here, in Rome. The other side of the mafia, this mafia bourgeoisie that lives
off mafia money. From the mafia. All while pretending that this
money is clean. And so it is all these completely legal professions
that will serve as his aid, as intermediaries both to access
the political world and corrupt it, and secondly, to succeed
in laundering money. Whitening. A catch-all word at the heart
of the criminal economy. Let us now pause to
detail the mechanisms and logic. The simplest and most widespread method
is to take cash and
physically and materially enter it into the accounts of a
small local business. A massage parlor for example. There is no one there all day. Never mind. Every evening, the boss deposits
the money from these trafficking operations into the cash register. He can even print receipts to make it appear that his
salon has received clients. So the trader
artificially inflates his turnover. Not too much. Otherwise, it may draw attention
to this slightly inflated turnover. He will indeed pay a little more tax, but this increased turnover
will cause material laundering. From this money
initially acquired fraudulently. Another illustration of a
bleaching circuit. Japanese ants. The Japanese mafioso gives two tourists
the famous ants, a sum of criminal money
and plane tickets to Paris. Ants buy luxury leather goods,
perfumes and haute couture in the capital. Back in Japan, the ants bring their purchases to the traffickers
and receive a small commission. Luxury goods fill
the windows of a Parisian mafia-owned goods store,
and their sales complete the cycle. Money laundering became increasingly
sophisticated in the 1980s. Franklin Jurado was one
of the architects of this new era. Financier of the Cali Cartel. After studying at Harvard, Jurado established a circuit in the faces that
are still relevant today. At that time, drug traffickers were amassing
phenomenal wealth from drugs. The traffickers had. Literally speaking, masses of
mountains of banknotes. We even tell stories. I don’t know if it’s true that some
Colombian traffickers store their banknotes in their swimming pool
and empty their pool to put the banknotes in
because they didn’t know where else to put them. This is where Jurado comes in. He divides the process into two stages. It’s quite simple, but it does
require a little attention. Let’s say I’m
a Colombian drug trafficker. I travel to a Caribbean tax haven and deposit briefcases
of cash into a bank account. Neither seen nor known. My black money is then transferred to a bank, for example in Germany,
to the bank account of a nominee. And there, it multiplies. The money is distributed and circulates through dozens of
increasingly respectable intermediary banks, to dozens,
even hundreds, of bank accounts in Monaco, Liechtenstein,
Switzerland, and Austria. To avoid attracting the attention
of banking authorities, the account balance never exceeds
ten thousand thousand dollars. Second phase of the Jurado cycle Now I have to repatriate
the money to Colombia for this. Through straw men,
I found companies in Europe. And it is these companies that, with laundered money,
will then invest in my name in Colombia, in
real estate restaurants, completely legally. It’s not the money that needs to be laundered, it
‘s the launderers. That is to say that the one who possesses
the money must become above suspicion and if he is above suspicion,
at that moment there will be no suspicion, no question will be asked
as to where his money comes from. Dissemination, concealment,
globalization. The key words of
criminal finance are set. It is no wonder that Jurado founded his theory during the 1980s
when, under the influence of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan,
a new ideology was spreading that made deregulation the alpha
and omega of economic policies. Since the 1980s, the United States Congress has consistently voted with both
Democrats and Republicans. Laws deregulating economic and financial markets,
that is to say laws by which economic and financial actors will
have less and less control over standards and will be less and
less monitored. Globalization. Globalization as it was constructed in the 1980s and
1990s has major flaws. And one of its drawbacks is the lack
of transparency in capital markets. This is how a global market has been formed that I would describe as criminogenic
in the way it operates, that is to say, it encourages
criminal activity, whether it be money laundering, corruption
or tax evasion. Shadow capitalism takes root,
finance becomes king. A boon for anyone who wants to
recycle their dirty money. And that one, they think that thinking that in. One day 1€ can do.
70. Movements in 70
different banks in 70 different countries? And who in the end, It is. It is clear that at the end of the 70th movement, the euro that arrives has lost all trace
of the bank from which it left. Criminal money floats like a fish in the waters of deregulated finance,
following the same currents as money from political corruption
or tax evasion. Currents that he carries towards his shores
with a taste of vacations and black money. Cayman Islands,
Panama, Virgin Islands. But not only that. We are talking here about fifty tax havens across the planet,
where money circulates without stopping. The spider’s web
of fraudulent economics. It is estimated that approximately half
of international financial transactions pass
through territories that are classified as
tax or banking havens. So, these territories are no longer themselves on the margins or periphery
of the global economy and finance. They have become central to it. John Christensen is today one of the spearheads of the fight
against tax havens. He knows them well. He was an economic advisor to the
Jersey government for eleven years. Offshore. When I worked in the offshore financial sector in Jersey,
I charged much higher fees than if I had worked
in a normal business. But clients expect
to pay higher fees. That’s what he pays you for. This is the price of what the Swiss call discretion
and what I call secrecy. In return, you will not cooperate
with potential investigators. You will even erect all
possible barriers to investigations. I once happened to do research for a client,
a huge oil company. She wanted to partner with a
Russian company and I had to find out more. This Russian company actually
had subsidiaries in Jersey, Cyprus, Switzerland,
Delaware, and the Netherlands. In short, the whole range
of different tax havens. Nobody actually knew
who owned the company. Person. Russian intelligence information led us to suspect that this
company belonged to a very,
very high-ranking political figure in Russia. But we never had proof of this. Actually. This evidence was locked in the safe
of a law firm in Cyprus. In Cyprus.
In Jersey, Monaco, and everywhere else in these trading posts of the
criminal economy, the price of silence is very high, and not many
people have anything to say about it. The system corrupts lawyers and
bankers because they are indeed collaborating
with criminals and know it. But the money from the rooms is too
high to dissuade them. In the secretive world of global finance, nothing looks more like
clean money than dirty money. This is why the biggest
money launderers are in very honourable positions
in the heart of Europe. Peaceful Switzerland, for example. Thirty kilometers from Zurich, the canton of Zug is one of the
flagships of this financial opacity. I take out a card in. 1975, after the oil crisis,
when globalization took hold. Developed. Money too.
Has become more. International. He moved to where
the lowest taxes were paid. And that’s where the
Zug boom began. For 20 years.
The companies. Mailboxes have been installed here. But there was also.
An influx of. Commodity trading companies
and their managers. Over the years, international groups
have established their headquarters in Zug. And. What about Strata,
Glencore, or even Trans Ocean, the leading oil drilling company implicated in
the pollution of the Gulf of Mexico in 2010? And what about the criminal money in all this? In the disembodied world of
outlaw capitalism, it is impossible to identify him. The resources are too limited to
effectively combat money laundering. And besides, the canton of Zug does not want national legislation
against money laundering. This amounts to saying that, firstly, the problem does not exist and, secondly, since it does not exist, we do nothing about it. While of course, something exists. The policy of silence prevails. Well. We have them at home, the tax havens,
San Marino, Monte Carlo, Luxembourg, Switzerland, the largest
tax haven in the world. For what ?
There is no real blacklist? Because tax havens do n’t just contain
mafia and drug money. Above all, we find that of major political, economic and entrepreneurial corruption, which today is the most modern counterpart
of the criminal economy. This is why this blacklist does not really exist,
because political and economic corruption leads to the
most industrialized countries in the world. So duplicity or blindness? There is another financial center that is good
in every respect and perfectly illustrates this illegal capitalism
where everything is mixed up. Perhaps the atomic heart
of this out-of-control system. London and its sacred enclave, the City, have been at the forefront of deregulation
since the 1980s. It is home to all the players and
instruments of criminal finance. The one who has adopted the methods
of classic banditry. London London is very attractive to
money launderers in many ways. And many more people. Experts like me consider London
to be the number one offshore location in the. World. We are offshore
from Europe. We are also having interesting discussions with Europe
regarding our status as a financial centre. But we are also offshore
from the rest of the world, thanks to the Commonwealth heritage with
the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, Belize and many other jurisdictions that give us
a rather solid position. And then. If you look at all these little islands, they have a few things in common. One of them is that their stamp
bears the figure of the Queen of England. It flies the British flag
and that is no accident. It is part of the
City’s development strategy. London, a hub
of global financial flows. Whatever color the money is. If you put your money in London, when it comes out, it is
legitimised again. If money is good for London, then it is good for
anywhere and anyone. Since the 1990s,
the international community has decided to wage war
on money laundering. An intergovernmental body, the FATF, draws up a list of recommendations. But these invitations to transparency
are of only relative effectiveness. The fight against money laundering and
offshore activities is the most abysmal failure of the entire
international community in the last 50 years. Let’s start with a number. The cartels. Mexicans and others who sell
drugs in North America, that is, in the United States and Canada, but primarily in the United States. It pays them back every year. It’s a fork because once
again, we don’t have the account books. Roughly $20 billion to $30 billion a year, $20 billion to
$30 billion every year. This money is earned and paid in cash, in banknotes because the mafias do not accept credit cards, less checks in North America and repatriated after that,
to Mexico or elsewhere, how much money does the United States
seize in the process? 1%, 1%? The mafia world is not affected by the crisis, and one might even wonder
whether the current financial slump is not a fantastic opportunity
to consolidate its positions. The only constitution around with. Today, the only international organizations with cash at their
disposal are the mafias, and they have begun
to penetrate the banking system. This is why I have sounded
a major alarm. I alerted governments and
banks in 2008, 2009 and again recently. The financial crisis provides
a unique opportunity for global mafias to penetrate and rescue the
banking system and thus establish themselves irreversibly in the global economy
. Faced with this major challenge of our time,
those who govern us seem to be playing the card of blindness
or resignation. When it is not more. Nobody wants this
issue to become political. Fraud is this whole degraded system, this whole system of addiction
in fact to trivialized fraud. It’s a soft drug
that becomes a hard drug. And in fact, nobody wants
society to detox today. From this deadly addiction. Martin Woods is a privileged witness. Woods was involved in the biggest money
laundering scandals in history in 2005. This former Scotland Yard employee was hired by the London branch of a
major American bank, Ecosia. Woods quickly identified
transactions. Suspicious. From customers
linked to Casa de Cambio. Mexican currency exchange offices. What we found was the existence of entire packages
of Czech workers with consecutive numbers, suspicious signatures, no date, no identification, nothing that would allow me to know with certainty who had presented these checks. In this case, we must
return to the basics. Who is the.
Customer ? It was impossible to know. Martin Woods alerts his bosses, unaware that he is not the only one. US federal authorities are also taking a
close interest in Waco via. Especially since the Mexican army intercepted a plane in 2006, chartered by the Sinaloa cartel. The plane is full of cocaine. But above all, the investigation will show that it was bought with money that passed through accounts there or via. A bank or. Bank executives were involved in promoting its services to customers of Mexican currency exchange offices. He provided the means
to launder money. And when I have.
Denounced this. I have.
Was attacked by the. Bankers. Despite the incriminating evidence gathered by Martin Woods, the bank turned a deaf ear and reserved all its criticism for its employee. I was not supported by my department or my bosses. Actually.
I received no support of any kind. But it took the people at the bank a long time to realize that money didn’t control me. Money didn’t have the influence over me
that it had over them. The most significant thing was when my boss called me in 2009 to tell me that my
bonus would be zero. This is a truly revealing moment. The moral of this exemplary story is that Martin Woods is fired. As for Wicked, caught up with the American justice system in March 2010, it got away with a ridiculous fine. And is convinced that she financed the purchase of used aircraft from Casa del Cambio. Is it worth being Sherlock Holmes and having studied at the École Polytechnique to say let’s see? The money comes from Mexico. He’s been through some shady companies and they want to buy some pretty good planes. It is probably for the development of tourism. You shouldn’t completely take people for fools. The American justice system and the American banking system have screwed the world. I cannot explain or understand why the US Department of Justice decided not to prosecute VIA managers. Perhaps it is related to the financial crisis and the fear that after the collapse of a major bank, Lehman Brothers, another major bank, Via, will also collapse? This may be the explanation, but it could also mean that today the presence
of criminal money is so strong. That he has.
Became untouchable. In 2008, Ecosia was bought by a rival bank, Wells Fargo, and it was they who would foot the bill. A fine of 150 million dollars. This is grotesque when you consider that the total sums laundered by Ecosia amount to $378 billion. A staggering sum equivalent to a fifth of France’s GDP. Frankly. There is not a single bank in the world that has not been
affected by this problem. I even have some of my very
militant colleagues, very worried about all this, who do not hesitate to say that today it is not the mafias who are looking for banks, but the banks who are looking for the mafias’ money. Some bankers must be asking themselves this question. He should even be questioned by the authorities about what they are doing. In the end, is the distance really so great between the launderer’s hand and the criminal’s trigger? Who knows? I.

L’argent du crime est-il devenu indispensable au système financier mondial ? ✋ Les enjeux du Monde ? Ils sont ici 👉 https://bit.ly/3nbDE0S Abonnez-vous 🙏

00:00 – Le massacre de Duisbourg : révélation du pouvoir mafieux
02:26 – Le port de Gioia Tauro : carrefour des trafics
06:08 – De la Calabre à Toronto : expansion mondiale des mafias
10:23 – Les revenus colossaux du crime organisé
13:39 – Corruption, intimidation, et contrôle économique
18:28 – Naples : mafia et trafic de déchets toxiques
22:31 – L’Europe de l’Est : nouvelles frontières du crime
27:22 – Le casse-tête du blanchiment d’argent
34:57 – Paradis fiscaux : le cœur du système
42:38 – Londres, Zoug : capitales du blanchiment
47:13 – L’affaire Wachovia : quand les banques ferment les yeux
51:24 – Une question capitale : l’argent sale gouverne-t-il déjà le monde ?

Aujourd’hui, ce ne sont pas les mafias qui cherchent des banques, mais les banques qui cherchent des mafias”… Ces mots terribles ne sont pas ceux d’un militant agité. Bien au contraire, ils sortent de la bouche d’un très posé haut fonctionnaire international. Antonio Maria Costa, ancien patron de l’Office des Nations-Unies contre la drogue et le crime organisé, avait déjà stupéfié son monde en affirmant en 2009 que l’argent du crime avait sauvé certaines banques de la crise financière. Ce terrible constat en dit long sur la contamination de l’économie par l’argent sale, celui du crime et des grands trafics internationaux.
Jamais les mafias n’ont été aussi riches et puissantes. Elles sont la face noire de la mondialisation, sur laquelle elles se sont appuyées pour accumuler des masses d’argent insoupçonnées. La financiarisation de l’économie est le second pilier de leur développement. Elle a permis aux grandes organisations criminelles de recycler ces montagnes d’argent noir et d’en faire des acteurs majeurs du fonctionnement économique.
Dans les coffres-forts des paradis fiscaux, comme dans la sphère des transactions financières, l’argent du crime se mêle à celui de la corruption et de l’évasion fiscale. Contribuant à l’édification d’une gigantesque zone grise, avec la complicité de tout un tas de gens très “honorables” : avocats, banquiers, cabinets d’audit, experts en tout genre, élus de tout bord…
Ce film est un voyage au royaume de l’argent sale. De la Calabre à Londres, de la Suisse à l’Allemagne, nous sommes partis sur les traces de cet argent que l’on ne voit pas et dont on ne parle pas. Depuis plus de dix ans, toutes les énergies semblent tournées vers la lutte dont contre le terrorisme. Alors qu’une autre géopolitique se dessine, celle du crime organisé transnational, peut-être le grand défi du XXIe siècle. Car une question se pose à nous : n’est-il pas trop tard ?… L’argent sale n’est-il pas devenu indispensable à la marche du monde ?

À découvrir sur Notre Monde :
TRAFICS – Argent sale et blanchiment : Quand le crime alimente l’économie mondiale https://youtu.be/MQqehbB5wN0
La Finance de l’Ombre : la Suisse devenu le paradis de l’argent Russe https://youtu.be/0n25d6Ydrao

“L’argent sale le poison de la finance”
Réalisation : Nicolas Glimois
Production : MANO A MANO
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