World News – UA – JUST IN: Peter Schiff’s bank suspected of being the main money laundering tool of organized crime syndicates

As reported by Australian outlet The Age, Euro Pacific Bank co-owned by Bitcoin hater Peter Schiff has been suspected of being a money-laundering tool used by organized crime syndicates in Australia and around the world

According to an article published by The Age, international law enforcement and tax authorities suspected that Euro Pacific Bank, co-owned by Bitcoin critic and gold lover Peter Schiff, was actively used by crime syndicates in Australia and around the world for laundering illicit profits

This emerged as a result of Operation Atlantis, a large-scale international tax investigation carried out by a special J5 task force

The task force is made up of tax evasion investigators from UK, Australia, US, Canada and the Netherlands and that was after the Panama Papers leaked

Hundreds of Australians have been investigated for possible tax evasion and could face jail time for avoiding paying taxes The investigation came after raids in late January in worldwide and has been described as an « unprecedented joint investigation »

Now Australian law enforcement suspects Euro Pacific Bank of contributing to extensive money laundering and has called it a « serious organized crime threat » to the country

This is the most serious classification that can be made by the Criminal Intelligence Commission of Australia

Peter Schiff insists that despite the IRS visit to the United States earlier this year, no charges have been laid against the bank and he denies the accusations transmitted to him by the media that came at home for an interview

« We have responded to all kinds of inquiries We have kind of been caught up in everything that is going on, but there are no valid allegations against the bank I can tell you there there is no tax evasion at the bank The bank does not facilitate anything « 

However, a survey by The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, 60 Minutes and The New York Times took a different view and recalled that the bank works with leading financial institutions connected to 13,000 customers. global

Euro Pacific’s partners include the Federal Reserve of New York, the British bank NatWest, the Canadian Bank of Montreal and the Japanese bank Mizuho Some of these banks are also under investigation by the Operation Atlantis for money laundering for large criminal organizations

According to investigative documents, the bank’s client list includes Simon Anquetil, who was jailed for creating and running Australia’s biggest tax scam – Plutus Payroll

There is also a Russian hacker wanted in Australia and the United States for carrying out the world’s largest cyber-malware attack and an Australian citizen suspected of helping a drug syndicate launder $ 1 billion. dollars

Yuri is a journalist interested in technology and technical innovations He has been in crypto since 2017 Believes that blockchain and cryptocurrencies have the potential to transform the world in the future Cryptocurrencies « Hodls » Wrote for several crypto mediums Is currently a news editor at UAtoday, can be contacted at yurimolchan @ uau Today

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