IRS EXAMINING
CLAIM OF HSBC WHISTLEBLOWER
WND series prompted authorities, Senate report
confirms massive fraud
Published: 2
hours ago
As U.S. senators digest a sharply critical committee report
confirming massive international money laundering by global banking giant HSBC,
the Internal Revenue Service is acknowledging receipt of a whistleblower claim
from a former employee of the bank who presented 1,000
pages of evidence to WND six months ago, after local and federal
authorities ignored him.
A series of WND
stories, beginning in February, reported the evidence collected by
John Cruz, a former vice president and relationship manager for HSBC in New
York who documented hundreds of millions of dollars in suspicious transactions
he pulled from a bank computer system before he was fired. Cruz was terminated
in 2010, after two years at HSBC, for “poor performance,” but he contends he
was let go because senior management didn’t want to him to pursue his personal
investigation.
In a letter to
Cruz, the supervisor of the IRS whistleblower office in Ogden, Utah,
acknowledged the agency is evaluating Cruz’s claim to determine whether an
investigation is warranted. Cruz previously told WND he met with special agents
with the IRS criminal division in April and handed over a computer disc with
copies of his internal documents.
The agents,
according to Cruz, were overwhelmed with the volume and detail of the
information, calling it “mind-boggling.”
Meanwhile, a Senate report
released last week presents evidence HSBC abetted massive money
laundering by Iran, terrorist organizations, drug cartels and organized
criminals throughout the world. The report said HSBC transferred $19 billion
for Iran and $7 billion in physical cash for Mexico.
WND’s series of articles on HSBC has caused fallout
for WND senior reporter Jerome Corsi and for WND,
which saw one of the articles temporarily blocked when HSBC filed a complaint
with an Internet provider that turned out to be unwarranted.
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