HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) has helped criminals, corrupt politicians, front men of Third World dictators, sanctionned individuals, and tax evaders to hide billions of dollars. Some of these individuals are connected to arms trafficking, blood diamonds, discredited regimes, and large scale bribery scandals, secret leaked documents published by the collaborative investigation, led by an independent journalism unit, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in collaboration with Le Monde, and distributed to several news media around the World.
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Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Nguema Settles Kleptocracy Case in US
The United States (U.S) Justice Department announced on Friday 10, 2014 that Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, the son of the African dictator of Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has settled the embezzlement, corruption, money laundering case. According to the United States Justice Department, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, who is the Second Vice-President to his father, has agreed to a $30 million settlement to resolve the U.S. government's accusations that he used money plundered from his country to acquire massive assets in the Unites States, including private jets, Ferrari, a $30 million mansion in Malibu, California, and Michael Jackson memorabilia such as a crystal-encrusted glove.