How the Commonwealth Bank helped a Bitcoin fraud suspect accused of laundering billions

Alexander Vinnik is in a world of trouble.

Key points:

FINCEN Files reveal the secret role of the Commonwealth Bank and an Australian foreign exchange broker in supporting an alleged five billion dollar money laundering ring

The secret US Treasury documents were leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

A Russian national may be behind money laundering operation, prosecutors say

The 40-year-old Russian is inside a jail cell in France, where prosecutors argue he is responsible for a vast criminal enterprise.

His problems do not end there: US prosecutors want to extradite him to face criminal charges, while New Zealand police have frozen $130 million of his assets.

The Australian Federal Police are on his tail too.

That is because Mr Vinnik allegedly transferred nearly $100 million through Australia with the help of the Commonwealth Bank, to potentially launder the proceeds of crime.

A 'breeding ground' for hackers, fraudsters and public corruption

Mr Vinnik allegedly operated one of the world's most popular digital currency exchange sites.

Known as BTC-e, the site allowed users to exchange real currency for Bitcoin.

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And it offered members — who traded under pseudonyms like CocaineCowboys, ISIS and hacker4hire — near-total anonymity.

The company behind the website was registered in Seychelles — a known money-laundering haven — where people set up shell companies, and hide behind them to protect their identities.

American prosecutors argue BTC-e was a breeding ground for hackers, fraudsters, identity-theft scams, public corruption and drug trafficking.

But there's a further twist.

Remember how the Mueller investigation found Russian operatives were responsible for hacking the Democratic National Committee, which led to internal Clinton campaign emails getting leaked two days before the 2016 election?

Later analysis showed those Russian hackers paid for their operations using BTC-e, the service American prosecutors claim Mr Vinnik controlled.

How the criminal enterprise unravelled

About a month after Donald Trump was elected president, an analyst for the British bank Barclays began looking at the transactions coming in and out of BTC-e.

The analyst was so concerned by what they'd found, the bank sent a Suspicious Activity Report to the US Treasury's intelligence division.

"BTC-e also has a high volume of dark web and Tor market activity and mixing activity — a service used to mask and hide the ultimate source of Bitcoin to make them harder to trace," the analyst stated.

"Although otherwise legitimate trading activity does occur through BTC-e, the above intelligence indicated that wire activity with BTC-e should be treated with caution."

Meanwhile, an FBI investigation into the Bitcoin exchange was gathering pace.

On the morning of July 25, 2017, BTC-e users woke up, turned on their computers, and were met with a stark message.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-26/btc-e-vinnik-bitcoin-money-laundering/12703770

Dr. Atlas Breaks Down the REAL COVID-19 Numbers on The Ingraham Angle — Rebukes CDC Director Dr. Redfield on Scare Tactics

Trump Coronavirus advisor Dr. Scott Atlas claims COVID-19 deaths, hospitalizations and emergency room visits are down to levels not seen since the beginning of the crisis.

On Thursday Dr. Atlas was forced to correct CDC Director Robert Redfield’s inaccurate and partial truths on the current coronavirus pandemic.

Dr. Atlas is very confident with the information he is sharing.

The Washington Examiner reported yesterday:

Dr. Scott Atlas, the Stanford radiologist-turned-White House adviser, accused the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield of “misstating” coronavirus data Wednesday.

“I think that Dr. Redfield misstated something there,” Atlas said, referring to Redfield’s testimony before the Senate Wednesday in which he said that 90% of the population remains susceptible to COVID-19.

“When you look at the CDC data state by state, much of that data is old, some of it goes back to March or April, before many of these states have the cases,” Atlas said. He added that people also may have other forms of immunity to the virus beyond the kind Redfield referred to.

Atlas, formerly a fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution, joined the White House in August. Since then, he’s appeared with President Trump at press conferences, while other public health officials, such as Redfield and coronavirus task force members Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx, have not.

Rep. Andy Biggs agrees that Dr. Atlas lays out the facts unlike others who presented whatever their agenda called for at the time:

Dr. Atlas shared that hospitalizations are down, deaths are down, people entering the emergency rooms with COVID are down. These are very positive trends.

Dr. Atlas was on with Laura Ingraham on Thursday night.

This was a very important interview.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/dr-atlas-claims-covid-19-deaths-hospitalizations-emergency-room-visits-levels-not-seen-since-beginning-crisis/

https://youtu.be/rv2iMjOp-CU

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At Pentagon, fears grow that Trump will pull military into election unrest

WASHINGTON — Senior Pentagon leaders have a lot to worry about — Afghanistan, Russia, Iraq, Syria, Iran, China, Somalia, the Korean Peninsula. But chief among those concerns is whether their commander in chief might order U.S. troops into any chaos around the coming elections.

President Donald Trump gave officials no solace Wednesday and Thursday when he again refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power no matter who wins the election, and Thursday, he doubled down by saying he was not sure the election could be “honest.” His hedging, along with his expressed desire in June to invoke the 1807 Insurrection Act to send active-duty troops onto American streets to quell protests over the killing of George Floyd, has incited deep anxiety among senior military and Defense Department leaders, who insist they will do all they can to keep the armed forces out of the elections.

“I believe deeply in the principle of an apolitical U.S. military,” Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in written answers to questions from House lawmakers released last month. “In the event of a dispute over some aspect of the elections, by law, U.S. courts and the U.S. Congress are required to resolve any disputes, not the U.S. military. I foresee no role for the U.S. armed forces in this process.”

But that has not stopped an intensifying debate in the military about its role should a disputed election lead to civil unrest.

On Aug. 11, John Nagl and Paul Yingling, both retired Army officers and Iraq War veterans, published an open letter to Milley on the website Defense One. “In a few months’ time, you may have to choose between defying a lawless president or betraying your constitutional oath,” they wrote. “If Donald Trump refuses to leave office at the expiration of his constitutional term, the United States military must remove him by force, and you must give that order.”

Pentagon officials swiftly said such an outcome was preposterous. Under no circumstances, they said, would the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff send Navy SEALs or Marines to haul Trump out of the White House. If necessary, such a task, Defense Department officials said, would fall to U.S. Marshals or the Secret Service. The military, by law, the officials said, takes a vow to the Constitution, not to the president, and that vow means that the commander in chief of the military is whoever is sworn in at 12:01 p.m. on Inauguration Day.

But senior leaders at the Pentagon, speaking on the condition of anonymity, acknowledged that they were talking among themselves about what to do if Trump, who will still be president from Election Day to Inauguration Day, invokes the Insurrection Act and tries to send troops into the streets, as he repeatedly threatened to do during the protests against police brutality and systemic racism. Both Milley and Defense Secretary Mark Esper opposed the move then, and Trump backed down.

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/at-pentagon-fears-grow-that-trump-will-pull-military-into-election-unrest/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=article_inset_1.1

People getting nervous

Virginia: 1,000+ Voters Receive Two Absentee Ballots

Over 1,000 Virginia voters who sought an absentee ballot to vote received an additional ballot in the mail, raising further concerns about possible electoral fraud in the November election.

Fox News reports:

Officials blamed the confusion on label printing machines that jammed, erroneously causing some to be duplicated when entire pages were reprinted due to damage to just some of the labels. “Before the supervisors caught it, the people applying the labels applied them to the entire sheet of labels rather than just pulling out the ones that should have been processed,” Fairfax County Registrar Gary Scott told NBC 4 Washington. […]

Fairfax saw the majority of the duplicate ballots, with about 1,000, out of roughly 1,400 across the state. Another 300 were sent to voters in the city of Richmond and 100 in Henrico County, just to the north.

“We knew the Democrats’ many last-minute changes to our election law would make our elections less secure, but no one could imagine voters receiving two ballots,” Virginia Republican Party chairman Rich Anderson said in a statement.

Federal officials are also investigating the discovery of several discarded military ballots cast for President Donald Trump in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.

“Of the nine ballots that were discarded and then recovered, 7 were cast for presidential candidate Donald Trump,” said the U.S. Attorney’s Office Middle District of Pennsylvania. “Two of the discarded ballots had been resealed inside their appropriate envelopes by Luzerne elections staff prior to recovery by the FBI and the contents of those 2 ballots are unknown.”

Meanwhile, U.S. Postal Service officials are investigating trays of mail discovered in a ditch in Greenville, Wisconsin, on Tuesday. In a statement, the Outagamie County Sheriff’s Office said the three trays were found at 8 a.m. near the Appleton International Airport. A USPS spokesman confirmed to FOX 11 that the mail included absentee ballots.

Speaking to the Washington Examiner, the sheriff’s office said the “mail going to the post office.”

“The United States Postal Inspection Service immediately began investigating and we reserve further comment on this matter until that is complete,” USPS spokesman Bob Sheehan said.

https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/09/25/virginia-1000-voters-receive-two-absentee-ballots/

‘We Caught ’em Cold’ — Donald Trump Reacts to Major Steele Dossier Development

President Donald Trump on Friday celebrated new revelations in the development of the notorious Steele Dossier used by the FBI to spy on the his 2016 campaign.

“We caught ’em cold,” Trump said triumphantly at a Latinos for Trump event in Florida. “It was a whole conspiracy and it was the worst thing anyone’s ever seen and it was a takedown and we caught em’ cold.”

The president cited reporting from CBS reporter Catherine Herridge, showing the primary sub-source of the dossier developed by Christopher Steele was the subject of an FBI 2009 counterintelligence probe because of his ties to Russia. The salacious uncorroborated dossier claimed that Trump was compromised by the Russians and was widely shared between Washington political and media elites during the 2016 election.

“It was all the opposite. They were the ones conspired and they got caught,” Trump said, referring to the dossier.

The source for the dossier was deemed a national security threat by the FBI, but that did not stop the FBI Crossfire Hurricane team from using the information in the dossier to get FISA approvals to spy Trump’s 2016 campaign.

“I want to commend Catherine Herridge of CBS; she did an incredible piece on this,” Trump said.

The report notes that the FBI team knew about the questionable sources of the dossier but still used it as evidence in the investigation.

“Let’s see what happens, we went through three years of crap,” Trump said. “Let’s see what happens now that they got caught.”

He described the FBI and the Democrat effort to take down his presidency as a “coup” that reminded him of some Latin American countries.

“It’s not even believable and there’s more coming out,” Trump said. “It’s getting deeper and deeper and worse and worse, and it was spying on the campaign, but that was the beginning, then it was a coup.”

The president also referred to newly uncovered texts from FBI agents discussing the purchase of liability insurance policies, as the investigation began to unravel.

“If the fake news would actually report it properly it would be incredible,” Trump said.

He prodded the corporate media, urging them to prioritize the story.

“It’s a big story. It’s a tremendous story and on the internet its the biggest thing, it’s taken over the internet,” he said. “It would be great if the lamestream media would do something about it, but they tend not to.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/25/we-caught-em-cold-donald-trump-reacts-to-major-steele-dossier-development/

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