The Cyprus bank comes up again with Manafort.

[kentuck]

The Russian that paid $95 million for Trump's mansion in Florida and then demolished it used the same bank.

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was a VP in the same bank. He assisted Trump in getting loans thru the bank.

It was well known as a money-laundering bank. Put your money in their bank and use it to buy real estate or properties and the money was washed clean. There was little or no oversight.

What did Trump do with the $50 million profit he received from the Russian? That money was laundered by the Russian thru Donald Trump.

Now, we find that Paul Manafort used the same bank in Cyprus. He deposited $1 million dollars one day and the next day withdraws two sums of $500K each. He then deposited that money in the Caymans or some other place.

This is an international crime syndicate that is too big for even the FBI to handle.

[sunonmars]

1. Cyprus bank is well known as an international money launderer

The oligarchs preferred bank of lender.....

Its basically a cabal, Trump is in the service of the international oligarchs cabal.

[kentuck]

2. Is it a branch of the Deutsche Bank ?

Seems I read that someplace?

[Ilsa]

3. K&R. nt

[lostnfound]

4. NYT was whitewashing Wilbur Ross's connection to Cyprus bank a couple weeks ago

"New Commerce Secretary Was No Friend to Russians at Cyprus Bank"
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/world/europe/wilbur-ross-russia-bank-of-cyprus.html?_r=0

Article says that Wilbur Ross was no friend of the Russians, that his arrival chased them away a couple months later, and that the Russians shares were thereby diluted. Some pretty nice spin, whether intentional or not. Money laundering made to sound innocent. Ordinary people can't conceive of it.

[wiggs]

5. After 100 best-of-the-best FBI agents get through with the Cyprus bank they

will know everything...which Russians, which Americans, how much money, how many Trump apartments bought. Down to how many times Ross has to get up during the night to take a leak.

If regular journalists can uncover all these connections imagine what 100 spy hunters can find out using state of the art investigation tools.

The question will be: the FBI investigates for the purpose of finding criminal activity. If they can't recommend criminal charges, will they pass on all the information to the public or other investigative body so that other remedies can be pursued? Will we ever know the depth of corruption and compromise?