OpSec

Two Multinational Banks Ensnared in Panama Papers-Style Leak of FinCEN Data, as U.S. Election Draws Near

In several Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence scoops last week, Aussie reporter Nathan Lynch revealed that the U.S. Treasury’s financial intelligence unit is bracing itself for the publication of a “Panama Papers-style” leak of sensitive data by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and its media partners. The TRRI story says that the ICIJ’s “consortium members are preparing to publish simultaneously on a pre-determined date. The participating media outlets have…

Shadow Banker EXCLUSIVE: Leaked DEA, HSI, and FBI Report Exposes ‘New Fusion’ of Mexican Cartels Contracting Chinese Money Laundering Organizations in Chicago

A leaked intelligence report jointly authored by the Chicago branches of three separate federal law enforcement agencies documents a ‘new fusion’ between Mexican cartels and Chinese money-laundering organizations. This April 2020 report was among the BlueLeaks dump of unclassified, but sensitive, law enforcement data that was posted online in June by transparency collective Distributed Denial of Secrets. Chicago branches of the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and…

#BlueLeaks: Drug Traffickers Increasingly Laundering their Money via Crypto, DEA Says

Dope traffickers are increasingly exchanging their illicit proceeds for cryptocurrency, according to a leaked 2019 Drug Enforcement Administration intelligence bulletin. This bulletin stems from the BlueLeaks data dump and highlights a DEA Los Angeles Field Division investigation of a Southern California robbery crew that uses discounted bitcoin exchanges to entice victims. At first, Shadow Banker was intrigued by this overlay of gritty street-level violence over the fabled Blockchain of tech-buzzword…

BlueLeaks: FBI Intelligence Report Reveals that EncroChat Encrypted Crime Network Had Been on Fed’s Radar Since 2018

Shadow Banker EXCLUSIVE: Sam Gor ‘Dragon Head’ Chi Lop Tse’s 1997 DoJ Indictment for Heroin Trafficking!

Thanks to the Eastern District of New York’s Chief of International Narcotics and Money Laundering, Gina Parlovecchio, Shadow Banker has in its exclusive possession the 1997 Department of Justice indictment that names billionaire meth kingpin Chi Lop Tse, AKA “brother number 3,” as a co-defendant.