by Michael West | Sep 18, 2017 | Despatch, Government
Australia’s status as a paradise for money launderers will be further entrenched in coming days as a Swiss non-government-organisation (NGO) releases confidential documents relating to corrupt Malaysian businessman Taib Mahmud. As former governor of Sarawak...
by Michael West | Sep 3, 2017 | Finance & Tax, Government
OPED: we put the case for a Royal Commission into regulators as well as the banks. There is no deterrent for bad behaviour in banking. The system is broken. The top brass at the banks invoke the “reverse-Nuremberg defence”. They blame their foot-soldiers...
by Michael West | Aug 30, 2017 | Despatch, Finance & Tax
Most self-respecting money-launderers charge ten per cent. At CBA they charged $22 a trade, that is $22 for every remittance to Hong Kong. In other words, CBA – the winner of last year’s Australian Financial Review Innovation leadership award –...
by Bernard Keane | Aug 8, 2017 | Business, Finance & Tax
The Commonwealth Bank is chalking up ignoring a massive amount of money laundering to “lessons learnt”. That is not even close to good enough, write Glenn Dyer and Bernard Keane. WERE YOU thinking that given the bad odour that surrounds Australian banks,...
by Michael West | Jul 26, 2017 | Despatch
Pharmaceutical giant, Johnson & Johnson, is unable to explain why it remains in breach of the Corporations Act – in multiple breaches in fact – and is yet to do anything about it. The corporate regulator, Australian Securities & Investments...