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		<title>HSBC accused for money laundering: US senate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global banking giant HSBC allowed drug traffickers, terrorists and countries like Mexico to launder billions of dollars due to lax controls.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.alyunaniya.com/greece-hsbc-running-tests-in-cash-machines-for-drachmas/hsbc/" rel="attachment wp-att-3616"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-3616" title="hsbc" src="http://www.alyunaniya.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/hsbc-500x371.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="371" /></a>Global banking giant HSBC allowed drug traffickers, terrorists and countries like Mexico to launder billions of dollars due to lax controls and even bypassed U.S. sanctions against Iran, according to a report by the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations late Monday.</p>
<p>Lawmakers plans to hold a hearing on the report Tuesday morning, to question senior executives from the London-based bank.</p>
<p>The Senate&#8217;s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations said London-based HSBC (HBC) failed to review thousands of suspicious transactions over the past decade.According to the report in 2007 and 2008, HSBC&#8217;s Mexico unit shipped $7 billion in cash to the bank&#8217;s U.S. affiliate, a volume of shipments that law enforcement officials said could reach that size &#8220;only if they included illegal drug proceeds,&#8221; <em>bloomberg</em> reports.HSBC Mexico had a number of high-profile clients linked to drug trafficking, the report says, as well as &#8220;a huge backlog of accounts marked for closure due to suspicious activity, but whose closures were delayed.&#8221;</p>
<p>In addition, some HSBC bank affiliates bypassed US government bans against financial transactions with Iran and other countries, according to the report.</p>
<p>And HSBC&#8217;s US affiliate provided money and banking services to some banks in Saudi Arabia and Bangladesh believed to have links to al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups, the report said.</p>
<p>“We will acknowledge that, in the past, we have sometimes failed to meet the standards that regulators and customers expect,” Robert Sherman, an HSBC spokesman, said in an e-mailed statement. “We will apologize, acknowledge these mistakes, answer for our actions and give our absolute commitment to fixing what went wrong.”</p>
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