The Spanish Justice estimated at 90 million euros ($ 102 million at current exchange rates), the alleged crime committed by the heads of the Chinese bank ICBC in Spain, which investigates create a structure laundering “consummate” since the establishment of the Asian bank in Spain.
the Spanish National court, a court of higher instance that has accepted handle the case, estimated valuations of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor Spanish.
According this report, the business model of the Asian bank went to grab cash from Chinese entrepreneurs who came to the branch in Madrid “carrying backpacks, bags and boxes remittances effective for transfer in a short time, sometimes immediately, to China “.
This” channel laundering “would have been put to use in various criminal organizations of Chinese citizens located in Spain.
the general director of the branch in Madrid Wei Liu, his deputy, Xiuzhen Wang, CEO of ICBC Europe, Liu Wang and managers Jing Wang Huang, Chen and Dayan Li, favored, according to the prosecutor, massive transfers between 2011 and 2014 amounting to 90 million euros (102 million dollars).
a “massive fertilizer” that the ICBC tried to hide “chopping” the quantities in amounts less than 50,000 euros (about $ 56,842 to change), the threshold beyond which the law Spanish requires the declaration of assets abroad.
Anticorruption further notes that the entity hid from the police and judicial authorities, with malice aforethought, banking information of 78 customers investigated.
the arrest of the directors of ICBC in Spain last February was held in an operation that included collaboration group of financial intelligence Europol.
the ICBC, who arrived in Spain in 2011, has 16,227 offices in China and 203 branches and 1,562 agencies in the world, from which offers financial products and services to over 4.12 million corporate customers and 259 million individuals.
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