Tag: Parex Bank
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By John Christmas. How Maltese taxpayers lose money because of the EBRD (Part 1 of 2)
I’ve been writing articles for years about the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD – funded by 73 countries including Malta to foster transparency and democracy) using fraud to help Putin-linked oligarchs steal our money while wrecking the fledgling democracies in Eastern Europe. Some of my articles were published by Maltese opposition bloggers with…
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Interview with John Christmas (Part 2)
This is the second part of the interview with John Christmas, author of KGB Banker along with William Burton McCormick. In this second part of the interview, John speaks about current EU sanctions on Russia, the effects and results of EU banking regulation on money laundering and organised crime, and also about the fall-out or…
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Impressive how Valdis Dombrovskis got away with it
Yesterday, I continued the interview with John Christmas, the author of the best-selling thriller-novel, KGB Banker, and will be publishing the interview later on today. John Christmas worked at Parex Bank, one of Latvia’s major banks until he blew the whistle on the bank’s large-scale practices of fraud, and money laundering and its connections to…
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Interview with John Christmas (Part 1)
This is the first interview with John Christmas, author of KGB Banker, co-authored with William Burton McCormick. I’m currently promoting KGB Banker as part of Dar Camilleri’s collection and the reason why I chose this book is the importance of the author’s story on which he bases his novel. John explains more in the interview…
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Latvian Prime Minister’s Krišjānis Kariņš Russian connection
Those of us who live in Western Europe have come to know the leaders of the Baltic states due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The little-known Baltics, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have become famous for their strong support of Ukraine. Being neighbours to Russia, the Baltics have a long history and experience of Russian…
