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> HSBC was the bank of money laundering of the mexican drug cartels. HSBC was created in hong kong by the british to launder opium money after the Opium Wars.
by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> HSBC was the bank of money laundering of the mexican drug cartels.
HSBC was created in hong kong by the british to launder opium money after the Opium Wars.
""The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank" was founded by Scotsman Sir Thomas Sutherland in the then British colony of Hong Kong on 3 March 1865, and in Shanghai a month later, benefiting from the start of trading into China, including opium trading"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC
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