World Surveillance Group Inc (fka WSGI)

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Actually, these are the most interesting (for GTEM investors) excerpts from the article:

"A still secret report, seen by IPS, based on records seized in the 2002 Operation Spiderweb dragnet coordinated by Italian authorities and involving France, Monaco, Switzerland, Germany, Canada and the US showed that billions of dollars a year was channeled offshore for Russian crime groups through the Bank of New York (BoNY) and other banks, and then to Europe to be invested in legitimate businesses, or returned to mafia-controlled enterprises in Russia.

A US Congressional investigation found that the Bank of New York had moved $7-billion from Russia through shell company accounts in the late 1990s. The BoNY network was clearly a major Russian crime operation, yet under President George Bush, the US Justice Department's scrutiny was dropped. BoNY got a verbal slap on the wrist and had to promise to improve examination of clients' identities and suspicious transfers."