Western banks ’reaping billions from Colombian cocaine trade’ | World news

#Colombie : le trafic de #drogues profite aux banques occidentales | Slate
►http://www.slate.fr/lien/57387/colombie-trafic-drogues-banques-occidentales

A qui profite le trafic de drogues en Colombie ? Contre toute attente, et selon une étude de 2011 de l’université des Andes à Bogota, reprise par le Guardian le 2 juin 2012, lors de la publication de la version anglaise, le négoce de la cocaïne colombienne enrichit principalement les #banques des Etats-Unis et d’Europe.

Western banks ’reaping billions from Colombian cocaine trade’
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/02/western-banks-colombian-cocaine-trade?newsfeed=true

Western banks ’reaping billions from Colombian cocaine trade’
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/02/western-banks-colombian-cocaine-trade

The vast profits made from drug production and trafficking are overwhelmingly reaped in rich “consuming” countries – principally across Europe and in the US – rather than war-torn “producing” nations such as Colombia and Mexico, new research has revealed. And its authors claim that financial regulators in the west are reluctant to go after western banks in pursuit of the massive amount of drug money being laundered through their systems.

#blanchiment #banques